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, ...

Gastrulation, the process where an embryo reorganizes itself from a hollow sphere into a multilayered structure, is considered a “black box” of human development. This is because human embryos are ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...