Like schools of fish and flocks of birds, our cells can also migrate collectively in coordination with their neighbors. This ...

A lot happens in the first month of human embryo development as a single cell morphs into multitudes. Yet despite its significance, this period is basically a “black box” to researchers, says stem ...

Embryonic development is orchestrated by intricate gene regulatory dynamics that translate spatial and temporal signals into precise patterns of cell fate and tissue morphogenesis. Core transcription ...

Stem cells offer an extraordinary toolkit for science and medicine. Researchers are getting better at turning these ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...

Using CRISPR-based engineering methods to prompt stem cells to organize into embryo-like structures, scientists were able to create 'programmable' cellular models of embryos without ever experimenting ...