New gene may offer clues to infertility in both cows and women
A newly identified gene that controls embryo development in cows may someday offer clues into the cause of infertility in women.

Toothed Embryo Of Mammoth
For the first time, a well-preserved lower jawbone of a mammoth embryo is found by paleontologist E.N. Mashchenko and his colleagues in the Tomsk area.

How do you know whether you are male or female?
New research published online this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology investigates this basic and much-studied question in the fruit fly, and comes to a surprising new conclusion.

Protein Kinase D regulates several aspects of development in Drosophila melanogaster
Protein Kinase D (PKD) is an effector of diacylglycerol-regulated signaling pathways.

Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development
Demonstrating that clam embryos are affected by BCE paves the way for additional studies that may help explain how exposure to BCE affects human nerve cell

Changes to embryos can elicit change in adult fish
In a study illustrating the apparent linkages between the evolutionary development and embryonic development of species

Molecule that restricts mouse cells' potency could yield embryonic stem cells without the sacrifice of embryos
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a receptor that plays a key role in restricting embryonic stem cells’ pluripotency

Scientists' transgenic chicken aids embryo research
Currently, the chick embryo is often used as a model to understand normal and abnormal embryo development.

Long-term effects of embryo culture on behavior studied
In a test that measures anxiety, male mice developed from cultured embryos spent more time in open spaces

Technique makes it easier to see mouse embryo in all its glory
A fast, high-resolution, 3D mouse embryo visualization technique developed by collaborators

Patterning the early Xenopus embryo
This review revisits these early stages of Xenopus development and summarizes the recent explosion of information on the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that are responsible for the first phases of embryonic patterning.

Implantation mechanisms: insights from the sheep
This review highlights new information on the mechanisms and factors regulating implantation that is focused primarily on the sheep.

Worm Studies Give Researchers New Perspective on Embryo Formation
A team of genomics researchers has moved closer to answering this question by creating the first comprehensive diagram of the molecular interactions that orchestrate early embryo development.

Function of Vitamin A in Vertebrate Embryonic Development
The article discussed the importance of Vitamin A in the development of a vertebrate embryo...