During embryonic development, the intestine of the Drosophila fly divides into distinct chambers thanks to the formation of constrictions at specific points of the tissue. The Wingless (Wg) signaling ...

In a study of early embryonic development in primates, an international research team under the leadership of Berthold ...

Human embryos briefly exhibit traits like tails and gill-like structures, revealing our evolutionary history and deep ...

From a single cell to an entire organism, embryonic development is a process of continuous and constant change. However, our ...

In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of ...

A possible solution rests in embryonic stem cells, which can differentiate into various types of cells and be transplanted to restore internal damage. Further, they are characterized by their near ...

Advocates counter that adult stem cells, useful as they may be for some diseases, have thus far proved incapable of producing the full range of cell types that embryonic stem cells can.

Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified novel mechanisms regulating the development of the spinal column during ...

The segmental pattern is established during embryogenesis when the somites — the embryonic segments of vertebrates — are rhythmically produced from the paraxial mesoderm. This process involves ...