Faced with demographic collapse in her home country, the Chinese expert is conducting experiments on stem cells and human ...

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 ...

A snapshot of the development of twin chick embryos. The yellow streaks mark the future spinal cords. (cr: Mattia Serra group / UC San Diego) One of the most enduring, basic questions of life is: How ...

A new discovery by researchers challenges our current understanding of gastrulation, the most important stage of early embryonic development. When the zygote, or the fertilised egg, starts to develop, ...

The human embryo starts developing about four days after an egg is fertilized. At this stage, it is just a tiny clump of cells, but over the course of many weeks and months, it starts developing into ...

Until recently, synthetic embryos only existed in sci-fi novels. Now, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have transformed science fiction into science fact. A new study, ...

Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Retinoic acid (RA) is ...

1 Beijing Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology and Assisted Reproductive Technology and Key Laboratory of Assisted Reproduction, Ministry of Education, Center of Reproductive Medicine, ...

In their publication in Science, Professor Guojun Sheng (Kumamoto University, Japan), Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain) and Professor Ann Sutherland (University of ...

Scientists revise the current textbook knowledge about gastrulation, the formation of the basic body plan during embryonic development. Their study in mice has implications for cell replacement ...

Gastrulation is the formation of the three principal germ layers - endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm. Understanding the formation of the basic body plan is not only important to reveal how the ...

Jay Shendure is in the Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA, and at the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, the Allen Discovery Center for ...