Embryogenesis in 4D: A developmental atlas for genes and cells

How does a tiny cluster of cells become an embryo with a head, trunk, and tail? And how do thousands of genes coordinate this development? A new imaging method makes it possible to visualize the ...
Pharmabiz

Against a backdrop of rising global obesity, researchers trace brown fat to an unexpected embryonic source

Against a backdrop of rising global obesity, researchers trace brown fat to an unexpected embryonic source: Krems, Austria Saturday, March 14, 2026, 15:00 Hrs [IST] A team of scie ...
Science Daily

Textbooks challenged by new discovery about how cells divide

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that giant embryonic cells divide—without relying on the classic “purse-string” ring long thought essential for splitting a cell in two. Studying ...
The Scientist

Unraveling the Complex Mysteries of Embryonic Beginnings

Magdalena (Magda) Zernicka-Goetz, today a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology, recalled being an artistic child who enjoyed ...
News Medical

Early embryos are prone to chromosomal copying errors, new research shows

A new discovery by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics (BDR) in Japan upends decades of assumptions regarding DNA replication. Led by Ichiro Hiratani and colleagues, the ...