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 ...

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 ...

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

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' ...

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