A new study shows that embryonic lineage identity, encoded through mitochondrial dynamics and epigenetic silencing of CDK8, ...

The human body begins with a single fertilized egg formed by the union of a sperm and an egg. As the fertilized egg ...

C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his ...

Researchers have developed a light-triggered hydrogel that sustains shape changes, with potential uses in tissue engineering and robotics.

Precise spatiotemporal control of protein synthesis is essential during embryogenesis, yet directly measuring translation ...

In the dairy goat industry, a puzzling condition known as polled intersex syndrome has long frustrated breeders: animals that ...

Before most women know they're pregnant, an embryo has already begun organizing itself into the structures that will shape a developing body. Scientists have few opportunities to study those earliest ...

The mechanosensitive Piezo channels regulate the terminal differentiation of odontoblasts into dentin-forming cells by ...

Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour ...

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New research suggests the brain develops from two separate groups of early cells, one forming the forebrain and midbrain and the other the hindbrain, challenging a model of brain development that ...