This definition works pretty well here on Earth (although there are some important exceptions, such as viruses), but experts have pointed out that if life exists elsewhere in the universe, it may ...

Developmental Biology News. Read the latest research news on everything to do with developmental biology, from embryology to model organisms.

Explore Quanta’s developmental biology coverage.A survey of prehistoric bones reveals that T. rex and some of its cousins had more than one way to reach enormous sizes. Evolution may have preserved ...

Introduction Various types of blood cells, such as lymphoid and myeloid cells, are produced from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in the bone marrow, which is not the site of HSC development. During ...

Developmental biology seeks to document the path from embryo to organism, where cell-to-cell interactions and the spatial organization of tissues influence developmental mechanisms. Consequently, ...

Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed ...

Scientists from all over met in Chicago at Society for Developmental Biology conference to discuss development, disease, and diversity of life.

Cognitive development continues through adulthood. Source: Isabelle Brocas In the 1930s, Jean Piaget formulated his cognitive development theory, suggesting that children progressively gain ...

This year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Johann Mendel, who discovered the missing component of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, the genetic mechanism of trait inheritance. The ...

Transcriptome-Wide m6A Analysis Provides Novel Insights Into Testicular Development and Spermatogenesis in Xia-Nan Cattle ...

The study of developmental biology is getting a robotic helping hand. Scientists are using a custom robot to survey how mutations in regulatory regions of the genome affect animal development. These ...