Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form during early development, and how disruptions to this process can lead to ...

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 ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely ...

The architecture of the body is not encoded as a formal blueprint; rather, it's the tightly orchestrated activation and ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...

Turner syndrome (TS) arises from partial or complete loss of a sex chromosome, yet the mechanistic basis for Y chromosome loss (LoY), which may contribute to a subset of TS cases, remains unclear.

The sperm is not a passive supplier of genetic material to the egg. A study from Linköping University, Sweden, shows that certain molecules that come with the sperm, so-called micro-RNA, contribute to ...

Clusters of cells grown in the lab have been encouraged to produce human blood stem cells in a discovery that could one day supplement donations to people with blood disorders like leukemia and ...

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represent powerful tools for modelling early human embryogenesis and provide a source of differentiated cells for use in regenerative medicine. The assurance of ...

The team observed the emergence of the three-dimensional embryo-like structures under a microscope in the lab. These started producing blood (seen here in red) after around two weeks of development - ...