Researchers have developed a method for culturing fertilized chick eggs without their shells. The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, allowing for real-time ...

A thyroid hormone transporter is essential for the earliest stages of brain development, according to a new study of a region of the developing chicken brain with a layered structure similar to the ...

The work is a part of FANTOM and was funded by a Russian-Japanese grant provided by the Russian Science Foundation. The results were published in PLOS Biology. The third institution involved was ...

Producing more chicks is not enough — producers must produce more high-quality chicks capable of strong early development and ...

Scientists have visualised the early development of the nervous system in a chicken embryo. Minyoung Kim at the University of California, San Francisco, dissected the 2-day-old embryo out of its egg ...

A group of scientists have successfully created a human-chicken embryo, a scientific feat previously made impossible because of strict ethical laws. But by inventing a new technique to graft human ...

THE disastrous effect of thalidomide on development of the human embryo 1 has prompted us to investigate the influence of this substance on the development of the chick embryo. Although the results ...

Mentor: Michael L Robinson, Ph.D. This project explores the role of FOXE3 in eye development, focusing on its potential influence on cell fate decisions. Key questions include: What is the role of ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Efforts to observe chicken embryonic development date back to Aristotle date back to 300 BC. However, because the chicken's eggshell is opaque, it has been necessary to break the shell ...