In order for vertebrate embryos to develop their body axes, they require what is known as an embryonic signaling center. This ...

By tracking neural crest cells in catshark embryos, researchers discovered that the molecular toolkit behind face-building is ...

Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions. Thousands of cells coordinate, move and exert mechanical forces on each other as ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the trajectory towards the optimum? And can we 'derive' it in a purely ...

Together with his student Hilde Mangold, the biologist Hans Spemann discovered the so-called »organiser« during embryonic development in 1924. In ...