Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize ...

A top congressional Republican on Sunday criticized President Barack Obama's expected decision to reverse the Bush administration's limits on embryonic stem-cell research, calling it a distraction ...

On Thursday, Feb. 19, Ali May, an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented her research on the various ways tissue resident macrophages shape embryonic salivary ...

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what ...

A collaboration between research groups at the University of California, TU Dresden in Germany and Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s in Los Angeles has identified a mechanism by which embryonic cells ...

Researchers at the University of Connecticut have reported a novel bovine embryonic stem cell line with improved pluripotency ...

Researchers have succeeded in generating high-quality feline embryonic stem cells using sperm and eggs from testes and ovaries discarded during sterilization surgery. As different as they may seem, ...

A new discovery by researchers challenges our current understanding of gastrulation, the most important stage of early embryonic development. When the zygote, or the fertilised egg, starts to develop, ...

Glycolysis is an ancient metabolic activity. It consists of a set of reactions that convert glucose into energy. This central process allows cells to grow, divide, and stay alive. It has accompanied ...

Primordial germ cells, which emerge around day 16 in early human embryos, develop to form oogonia so that eventually, the number of oocytes that are present in an adult female is fixed at birth. After ...