This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

In early embryos, the first cell divisions must be extremely rapid and precisely controlled to ensure successful development. This balance is found to arise from a tight coupling between the clock ...

Neurons placed inside engineered living bodies built from frog cells self-organize, become active, and reshape movement ...

When Associate Professor Eliezer Calo PhD '11 was applying for faculty positions, he was drawn to MIT not only because it's ...

New research links Wnt signalling to aggressive paediatric liver cancer and chemoresistance. Learn what this means for treatment.

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have shown for the first time that, before they can start developing into egg and sperm cells, the embryonic ...

Discover how an ancient gene influences the sex of ant, bee, and wasp embryos, impacting conservation and breeding practices.

At several archaeological sites in southern Africa, hundreds of highly unusual fragments of ostrich eggs have been found.