But there is now a rapidly developing field mimicking natural embryo development. This research, published in the journal Nature, is described by the Israeli team as the first "complete" embryo ...

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In 1896, in his seminal work "The Cell in Development and Inheritance", the cell biologist Edmund B. Wilson formulated a ...

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Congenital heart defects are the most common form of human birth defect, but we still don't fully understand what causes them ...

Their findings, published in Cell Reports, reshape our understanding of how complex spinal circuits are established during ...

Since then, however, many investigators have unearthed molecular evidence that the genes involved in odontogenesis (tooth development) are indeed retained in chickens. A primary step in reaching ...