The ocean still hides many secrets, and sometimes the smallest or simplest creatures reveal the biggest clues about life.

The spacing, timing, and shape matched patterns usually found in animals with left and right sides. The process raised a question. Why would a sea anemone use what looked like a tool common in far ...

A frog belonging to an endemic Western Ghats species has been discovered by researchers with a severe limb abnormality, indicating possible environmental stress in the region’s fragile ecosystem. The ...

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

BEIJING -- After years of dedicated research, a team of Chinese scientists has unveiled critical mechanisms governing early human embryonic development, offering novel theories and potential ...

In mammals, the fusion of sperm and oocyte gives rise to a totipotent zygote, which undergoes a series of cleavage divisions and differentiation events. During this process, the embryo transitions ...

Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize itself into a complex organism. It underpins the diversity in the animal ...

Studying the shape of tissues and organs is critical to understanding how they are formed. Embryonic development happens in three dimensions, but many studies are limited by the use of two-dimensional ...

Microtubule asters in cytoplasmic extract of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. The spatio-temporal growth of the aster is coordinated by cell cycle waves that drive the polymerization (brighter ...

New research from the University of Newcastle has revealed that PFAS levels matching those found in the Williamtown contamination zone could significantly alter male reproductive health in ...

Transposable elements are stretches of DNA that can move around the genome. Many of these DNA sequences originate from long ago, when viruses inserted their genetic material into our ancestors' ...

*In accordance with Economic and Social Council decision 2005/213, the Commission, immediately following the closure of its fifty-eighth session, will hold the first meeting of its fifty-ninth session ...