Researchers from Skoltech, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences have studied ...

Somatic embryogenesis is at the frontier between plant biotechnology and plant development, and can be considered both as a biotechnological tool to achieve large-scale mass propagation and a ...

Drosophila embryogenesis is extremely rapid with < 3 h from fertilization to gastrulation and only 22–27 h to the first larvae stage. The main reason for this is that the early Drosophila embryo, like ...

More specifically, how chromatin accessibility and gene expression shift during Drosophila embryogenesis. This “ungapped” single-cell map of embryo development is the most complete and ...

Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly. For years, scientists have been mapping the fly’s neurons and synapses in an effort to create a ...

The PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway controls transposon expression in animal germ cells, thereby ensuring genome stability over generations. In Drosophila, piRNAs are intergenerationally ...

Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies have a robust cellular immune response, composed principally of motile and highly-phagocytic plasmatocytes (Evans and Wood, 2011), which perform many analogous ...

Abstract Secreted and transmembrane proteins play an essential role in intercellular communication during the development of multicellular organisms. Because only a small number of these genes have ...