Tiny, striped zebrafish are helping scientists trace how a gene linked to albinism influences eye development, work that may ...

Paired box 6 (PAX6) is a member of the highly conserved paired box (PAX) transcription factors. Transcription factors regulate the activity of large numbers of genes involved in development. The PAX6 ...

University of Sydney researchers have developed a new way to test how closely lab-grown biological models resemble real human embryos, finding that while some models perform well, none yet fully ...

A small tissue fold in fly embryos, once thought purposeless, plays a vital role in stabilizing tissues. Researchers show that it absorbs stress during early development, and its position and timing ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...