Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic ...

Scientists at EPFL have created a scalable 3D organoid model that captures key features of early limb development, revealing ...

UCSF’s Program in Craniofacial Biology (PCB) brings together researchers to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms ...

Under the microscope, MSK scientists studied how cells in a mouse embryo (green) move out and break away from their original tissue by contracting their surfaces (red). Studying this process, known as ...

Gastrulation is the process that creates the 3 axes of the body. While this stage was thought to be driven solely by chemical signals, new tools made it possible to test whether physical forces play ...

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 ...

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the ...

Researchers have gained new insights into the mechanism behind the spatial organization of DNA within the cells of early embryos. When an embryo is first formed after fertilization, each cell has the ...

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 ...

The NCI grant is allowing Xu’s team to continue dissecting the interactions among Lfng, Notch3, and other key signaling pathways involved in PDAC initiation and progression. The goal is to translate ...