A University of California, Riverside study reports that cells in the earliest stages of human development could be ...

The development of an embryo is one of the most fundamental processes in biology. Early in this process, it is determined ...

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 ...

Scientists have used a tiny plastic "obstacle course" to test how much sperm would struggle to navigate during sex in the weightlessness of space.

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

Scientist Elizabeth Ng is clutching a small flask with a clear mixture inside it that she’s just retrieved from inside a ...

The model demonstrates never-before-seen potential in human pluripotent stem cells Key takeawaysFor the first time, stem cells typically considered ...

The quail is a small, unassuming bird that glides rather than flies and prefers to hide under bushes than to perch on top of ...