A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

A research team led by Associate Professor Hirofumi Nishizono and graduate student Masaki Kato from the Research Support ...

Integrated screening and CRISPR reveal eleven previously unknown factors essential for early embryo development. They showed ...

As the climate changes, scientists are concerned about how well plants and animals will adapt to rapid warming. A new ...

Embryonic development is a finely orchestrated process in which a single cell differentiates into the myriad specialised tissues that comprise a fully formed organism. Central to this process are ...

Scientists at UNIGE Faculty of Medicine show how genetic switches activate then deactivate the genes responsible for embryonic development. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, decipher ...

Molecular mechanism uncovered in mice by UC Santa Cruz researchers reveals how a father’s diet, stress, and other ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have developed an in vivo embryonic mouse intrauterine imaging technique, which has elucidated the dynamic process of brain development in embryonic ...

Over 130 mammal species can delay embryonic development, giving their offspring the best possible chance of survival in ideal ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...