embryo
Not a galaxy far, far away
While this may seem like a nebula made up of interstellar clouds of dust and ionised gases, this image isn’t of a galaxy beyond the Milky…
Tracing the origins of cells
Researchers from the Sharpe group at EMBL Barcelona have published a method to track the developmental history of a cell using the gene editing tool…
Unprecedented single-cell studies in virtual embryo
Researchers from EMBL Heidelberg have created a complete description of early embryo development, accounting for every single cell in the…
The zebrafish earned its stripes
Despite missing the characteristic stripes one would expect from a zebra – or a zebrafish – the fractals in this Picture of the Week show a…
An in silico hope for biology: machine learning
How EMBL scientists are using machine learning to advance…
Controlling organ growth with light
The De Renzis group investigated invagination, the first step of organ development in…
Welcome: Vikas Trivedi
An engineer’s approach to understanding…
Parental chromosomes kept apart during first division
Mammalian life begins differently than we…
Without a trace
Migrating cells, it seems, cover their tracks not for fear of being followed, but to keep moving forward. Scientists at the European Molecular…
Cells eat themselves into shape
The process cells use to ‘swallow’ up nutrients, hormones and other signals from their environment – called endocytosis – can play a crucial…
Sync to grow
In a nutshell: The size of pre-vertebrae in a mammalian embryo is controlled by a wave-like gene expression pattern along its back The size of each…
Stop and go
A traffic policeman standing at a busy intersection directing the flow of vehicles may be a rare sight these days, but a similar scene appears to…
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