By examining genetic clues that linger in adult cells, scientists have now gained surprising insights into the developmental ...

For the first time, a stem cell model has produced a structure resembling an early human embryo with a yolk-sac-like structure, from a single starting stem cell population and without direct genetic ...

Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize itself into a complex organism. It underpins the diversity in the animal ...

Transposable elements are stretches of DNA that can move around the genome. Many of these DNA sequences originate from long ago, when viruses inserted their genetic material into our ancestors' ...

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as "junk" plays a crucial role in the earliest moments of life. The research, ...

For the first time, a stem cell model has produced a structure resembling an early human embryo with a yolk-sac-like ...

When do peripheral nerves develop? Researchers used "mosaic barcodes" to prove that neural crest cells commit to their ...

Sox9, a master regulator of cartilage formation, switches its target genes dynamically during embryonic limb development ...

Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could ...