Human development is a beautiful, complex process. Beginning from just two germ cells, the cells divide and double until an entire organism is developed in just under a year.

This switch is “flipped” by the expression of genes that promote male- or female-specific development. Many lineages have evolved sex chromosomes that act as primary signals for sex determination.

Now researchers have discovered that avian embryos - established models for studying human development - control their size and shape using modular, independent physical mechanisms. Clarifying the ...

During embryonic development, thousands of cells divide and move collectively to sculpt the main body axes. Understanding the ...

Childhood is a crucial stage in a kid's development, and having a dog at home can be an incredibly enriching experience.

How Genes Drive Your Dog’s Lovable and Wacky Behavior The ... help connect the two halves of the face and mouth during embryonic development, with the unique variant in Turkish Pointers ...

This technique makes it possible to use large amounts of image data to numerically detect subtle differences in embryo development. During the course of the experiments, the team noticed that in ...

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development. CRCHUM researcher ...

The video footage of a stray dog eating a human embryo at the government women’s hospital at Lalsot in Rajasthan’s Dausa district created panic in the town, after which the district ...

investigated its effect on porcine embryonic development after parthenogenetic activation ... improved progressive motility and chromatin integrity of ram spermatozoa. Dog semen cryopreservation ...

Volumetric image of the nose of a dog embryo, obtained through "light sheet" fluorescence ... meaning the formation of shapes during embryonic development. On the one hand, chemical self-organizing ...

The noses of many mammals, such as dogs, ferrets and cows ... i.e. the generation of shapes during embryonic development. On the one hand, self-organisational morphogenesis can be mediated ...