A University of California, Riverside study reports that cells in the earliest stages of human development could be ...

Study finds early-stage ectoderm cells are especially susceptible, raising questions about potential developmental risks ...

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 – a ...

Cell division during the early stage of embryo development is a trade-off between speed and accuracy; the cells need to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two to three weeks after conception, an embryo faces a critical point in its development. In the stage known as gastrulation, the transformation of embryonic cells into specialized cells begins. This ...

Sox9, a master regulator of cartilage formation, switches its target genes dynamically during embryonic limb development ...

A new discovery by researchers challenges our current understanding of gastrulation, the most important stage of early embryonic development. When the zygote, or the fertilised egg, starts to develop, ...

Postdoctoral researcher Kamal Shokeen at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine studies how a key protein guides retinal ...

Scientists have pinpointed a stage in zebrafish embryo development where cells can better withstand disruptions to chromosome alignment during division. Using a light-activated tool to inhibit the ...