Scientists at EPFL have created a scalable 3D organoid model that captures key features of early limb development, revealing ...

Interdisciplinary approaches in developmental biology have revealed how cells build the embryonic bones of the skull vault ...

An international study has identified a gene that plays an important role in the development of the human embryo. If it is altered, malformations of various organ systems can result. The gene emerged ...

The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across ...

They discovered that a gene called VGLL1 (vestigial like family member 1) was turned on very early during placenta formation.

Long before human bone marrow takes over the task of producing blood, discrete waves of blood cell production occur in the developing embryo. Miriana Dardano, a postdoctoral researcher in Zweigerdt’s ...

A study conducted by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions reveals the molecular events leading to osteogenesis imperfecta type V, a form of brittle bone disease ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just ...

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the ...