Inspired by the true story of the development of the first IVF baby, Joy accurately retraces the steps that brought the ...

We all start our lives as symmetric balls of cells. In humans, during the first few weeks after fertilization, embryonic ...

The protein netrin1 has an entirely unanticipated role in organizing the spinal cord during early development.

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties ...

The cells' structure and division processes not only physically resemble the earliest stages of embryonic development in ...

Early development of an embryo is solely supported by maternally deposited RNAs and proteins until its own genome is activated through a process ...

Early development of an embryo is solely supported by maternally deposited RNAs and proteins until its own genome is activated through a process called zygotic genome activation (ZGA). Recent research ...

Keywords: Early embryonic development, embryonic differentiation, cell lineage differentiation and regulatory mechanisms, genes during organ formation, cell lineage tracing, congenital cardiovascular ...

Chromosphaera Perkins, or C. Perkins, is an ancestral species of protist. Diverging from the animal evolutionary line over a ...

Early development of an embryo is solely supported by maternally deposited RNAs and proteins until its own genome is activated through a process called zygotic genome activation (ZGA). Recent work by ...

Model used to create a cellular 'hologram' of a mouse embryo could be used to visualize development in any species.

However, a new study from the University of Geneva suggests that the egg could in fact predate all animal life. A ...