Sox9, a master regulator of cartilage formation, switches its target genes dynamically during embryonic limb development ...

It’s challenging to sustain a pregnancy when food is short, or conditions are otherwise tough. That’s why many mammalian embryos can postpone their growth to get through periods of environmental ...

Magdalena (Magda) Zernicka-Goetz, today a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology, recalled being an artistic child who enjoyed ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), used CRISPR to engineer cellular models of embryos that mimic what happens in the first few days after reproductive cells meet. These ...

Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.

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, ...

One extra letter of DNA. That was all it took to override an entire chromosome’s worth of instructions and turn a female ...

An Adelaide University study has revealed that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) found in tap water, at levels ...

Figure 1. Experimental design scheme for testing the regenerative effects of platelet rich plasma (PRP) in chemotherapy-induced ovarian damage mouse models using CD1 and C57BL/6 strains. Abbreviations ...