Studying how neural crest cells journey through the embryo, this Caltech developmental biologist has revealed how they form major cell types, including peripheral neurons, bone, and smooth muscle. In ...

A major breakthrough has been made in stem cell research with the development of a new method to grow chicken embryos without ...

Efforts to observe chicken embryonic development date back to Aristotle ... the surface of the blastoderm (the area where ...

The ability to turn off a gene of interest in a temporally and spatially controlled manner is key to the analysis of gene function in developing organisms. However, the induction of temporally ...

The organizer, a group of cells in the embryo that directs the developmental fates and morphogenesis of other embryonic cells, has been identified in human tissue for the first time, according to a ...