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

A new discovery by researchers challenges our current understanding of gastrulation, the most important stage of early embryonic development.

Embryonic development is a meticulously orchestrated process in which spatial and temporal cues guide cell fate determination and tissue patterning. Central to this process is morphogen signalling ...

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

Understanding how cells differentiate during early embryonic development is crucial for advancing regenerative medicine and developmental biology. Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) have been ...

You were once a single-celled zygote — a microscopic blob of tissue. But over the course of nine months or so, you developed into a breathing, eating, crying baby. This process really is one of ...

New insights into the way cells break away from a tissue during embryonic development may also shed new light on the same process in the context of cancer metastasis.

The work could provide important new insight into human development and miscarriage, but also raises thorny questions about research into embryo-like models.

Understanding embryo development The researchers have found a major cause for the atypical spatial DNA organization inside the nucleus of early embryo cells.

In contrast to the development of other animals whose embryonic cells rely on chemical signals for orientation, in P. hawaiensis the grid patterning is a mechanical event that spans two regions — one ...

Molecular gradients established as a key driving force for cellular organization during the formation of early structures during embryonic development.