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

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development—including the production ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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