A study from the University of Vienna reveals that sea anemones use a molecular mechanism known from bilaterian animals to ...

Adult polyp of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. C: Grigory Genikhovich. New insights into the evolution of the ...

Developmental and synthetic biologist Michael Levin redefines what life really is, how intelligence works, and what the ...

Recent research suggests that the distant ancestors of chickens were already laying eggs millions of years solving chicken and egg riddle.

With their colorful splotches of fur, calicos are some of the most easily recognized cats. However, calico is not a breed, ...

Tennis stars who take time off for protective fertility treatments can now maintain their WTA ranking, the organization ...

Sea anemones use ancient BMP shuttling to shape their bodies—linking them to humans and revealing deep roots of animal body ...

Human development is a beautiful, complex process. Beginning from just two germ cells, the cells divide and double until an entire organism is developed in just under a year.

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This valuable study concerns a model for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, the learned avoidance by C. elegans of the PA14 pathogenic strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A recent study ...

Gastruloids are stem cell-derived models that replicate a key phase of early embryonic development: the third week of ...