BEIJING -- After years of dedicated research, a team of Chinese scientists has unveiled critical mechanisms governing early human embryonic development, offering novel theories and potential ...

BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- After years of dedicated research, a team of Chinese scientists has unveiled critical mechanisms governing early human embryonic development, offering novel theories and ...

A study published today in the journal Developmental Cell uncovers new insights into how the heart forms during the earliest stages of embryonic development.

As cattle have not been traditionally considered a model species and the molecular details of germ cell development don’t directly inform production practices, the specification of primordial germ ...

Although Otx2 has been a topic of research for over 3 decades, the role of Otx2 expressed in the brain-forming anterior epiblast during gastrulation has not been clarified. We focused on epiblast ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. During gastrulation, mesodermal cells derived ...

Researchers at UCL and the Francis Crick Institute have, for the first time, identified the origin of cardiac cells using 3D images of a heart forming in real-time, inside a living mouse embryo. For ...

The myocardium of the heart is composed of multiple highly specialized myocardial lineages, including those of the ventricular and atrial myocardium, and the specialized conduction system.

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), used CRISPR to engineer cellular models of embryos that mimic what happens in the first few days after reproductive cells meet. These ...

Most animals, including humans, have bilateral symmetry, which means our bodies are pretty symmetrical. At least on the outside. On the inside, things are different. “If you look at our insides, we ...