Appropriate organization of three germ layers—endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm—during gastrulation is essential for a developing embryo. Mechanistic studies on the morphogenesis of embryos in ...

Researchers have discovered that microRNAs play an important role in embryonic development. The study pinpoints two microRNA families that direct the allocation of cells into the three germ layers -- ...

Using a method called CEL-Seq that can spy on the activity of every gene within a cell at once, Technion Associate Professor Itai Yanai and his colleagues now provide compelling evidence that the ...

Uniting three different parameters in single cells taken from mouse embryos reveals more about how foundational cell identities are established in early development The first single-cell multi-omics ...

When the zygote, or the fertilised egg, starts to develop, the soon forming inner cell mass, a cluster of cells that will eventually develop into the individual, retains its pluripotent stem cell ...