A study published today in the journal Developmental Cell uncovers new insights into how the heart forms during the earliest stages of embryonic development.

Researchers are getting better at growing miniature organs and embryos in test tubes or on chips. This creates new ...

For the first time, researchers revived fully functional mouse brain tissue from cryopreservation. The secret sauce: ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that gonadotrophs, cells in the pituitary gland with a key role in ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

PME-1 is a protein that modifies other proteins by removing methyl groups, but high levels of PME-1 are observed in some diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cancer.

Her family is upset that Georgia’s law that restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected doesn’t allow relatives to ...

Researchers at UCL and the Francis Crick Institute have, for the first time, identified the origin of cardiac cells using 3D images of a heart forming in real-time, inside a living mouse embryo.

Recently, researchers at UC Santa Barbara used modern laser microscopy techniques to observe how fluctuations in ovarian hormones shape both the structure and function of neurons in the mouse ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Images reveal the shocking ways animals could be changed if gene-editing is allowed to spiral out of control.

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding maternal control and activating its own genetic program. This critical process, ...