The use of assisted reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization is becoming more common worldwide. However, while ...

Caltech researchers have developed a powerful new method for creating embryo-like structures from stem cells that could ...

With today's advanced microscopes, scientists can capture videos of entire embryos developing in real time. But there's a catch: turning those breathtaking images into clean, accurate trajectories of ...

Embryonic development is a meticulously orchestrated process in which spatial and temporal cues guide cell fate determination and tissue patterning. Central to this process is morphogen signalling ...

Despite being an essential developmental process, the understanding of human embryonic genome activation is limited, owing to the lack of in vitro cell models and ethical concerns. To advance ...

New insights into the way cells break away from a tissue during embryonic development may also shed new light on the same process in the context of cancer metastasis.

Understanding embryo development The researchers have found a major cause for the atypical spatial DNA organization inside the nucleus of early embryo cells.

Their "programmable” embryo-like structures, also known as embryoids, can be used to study the role of certain genes in early development ...

A small tissue fold in fly embryos, once thought purposeless, plays a vital role in stabilizing tissues. Researchers show that it absorbs stress during early development, and its position and timing ...

In contrast to the development of other animals whose embryonic cells rely on chemical signals for orientation, in P. hawaiensis the grid patterning is a mechanical event that spans two regions — one ...