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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UCLA researchers have uncovered a surprising new role for netrin1, a crucial protein in neural development, as a regulator ...

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

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 ...

Researchers discovered that gene deserts, non-coding DNA regions, regulate heart and embryo development through enhancer ...