With today's advanced microscopes, scientists can capture videos of entire embryos developing in real time. But there's a ...

Zebrafish midline tissues coordinate their growth during embryonic development using a leader-follower strategy described by ...

Researchers have identified two pivotal genetic shifts in human evolution that reshaped the pelvis, facilitating bipedal ...

WASHINGTON >> Bipedal locomotion — walking upright on two legs — is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind’s success.

Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs ...

H umans are the only primates that walk on two legs. Scientists believe that their uniquely shaped pelvis, the bones that ...

Researchers bank on stem cells to study developmental biology, understand oral cancer, regenerate organs, and save species on ...

To shoot their stop-motion film, researchers placed human embryos donated by a local hospital near the gel. As the embryo ...

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 ...

A human embryo typically implants five to six days after fertilization (when egg and sperm meet). At this stage, the embryo ...

Zebrafish midline tissues coordinate their growth during embryonic development using a leader-follower strategy described by formation control, as ...

A recent study delves into the pivotal role of Setd2, a histone methyltransferase enzyme, in embryonic development within mice.