A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has uncovered how the MN1 gene evolved to shape both the ...

Anemia is a major global health concern, particularly affecting women of childbearing age, with prevalence rates between ...

Biological tissues exhibit two contradictory properties: they have a robust architecture that is required for their maintenance and resistance to stress, and they can be extensively remodelled ...

A study published today in the journal Developmental Cell uncovers new insights into how the heart forms during the earliest stages of embryonic development.

The germline is established during embryogenesis when primordial germ cells are first specified. Here they show that the RNA-binding proteins DND1 and NANOS3 function together to repress the ...

引言从精卵结合那一刻起，一个微小的单细胞合子（zygote），是如何被赋予了创造万物的无限潜能，又如何在最初的几天内，一步步精准地搭建起复杂生命的蓝图，最终孕育出我们自身？这绝非简单的遗传物质复制，而是一场远超想象的“编程盛宴”。研究人员发现，除了D ...

In other cases, more fingers or even all them may be absent. In the sixth to seventh weeks of embryogenesis, the developing embryo grows a hand paddle. That hand paddle then typically cleaves over ...