Tag: Developmental/Reproductive Biology

Understanding pancreas formation could aid research into type 1 diabetes treatments Researchers have discovered a key clue into the development ...

Tokyo - It takes a lot of connections to create human intelligence. Brain function depends on contacts between multiple regions ...

New three-dimensional imaging of the human placenta has been developed to help understand the reasons for fetal growth restriction - ...

Credit: Tracy Langkilde, Penn State Physical traits and behaviors that make a lizard sexy--features used to attract potential mates and ...

Study explores the genetics behind the evolution of flightless birds Since Darwin's era, scientists have wondered how flightless birds like ...

Credit: Monash University Embryonic stem cells (ESC) have the ability to self-renew, and, being pluripotent have the potential to create ...

Study reinforces importance of old growth forests In a paper recently published in the journal Biological Conservation, an international team ...

This Easter, researchers reveal why some parents eat their kids' eggs: it's because they care As you bite into a ...

Study identifies key factors that influenced whether transitioning transgender youth pursued fertility preservationCredit: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and ...

The scientific community has long held an understanding about the effect of temperature on sperm production in mammals, but this ...

An animal's choice of mate can be influenced by its diet as it reaches sexual maturity, research has shown. The ...

Raises questions over safety of the anesthesia during pregnancyCredit: Dr. Vicko Gluncic, MD, PhD While there has long been discussion ...

Study uses cell-by-cell analyses to look for new therapies that might workCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI -- Cell-by-cell genetic analyses of ...

Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have found that the enzymes ULK1 and ULK2 ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists offer insight into the toxicity at the heart of devastating neurological disordersCredit: St. Jude ...

Credit: NIBB The male Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, living on Japan's main island has big horns, which are used ...

Credit: John Soares BOSTON - (April 10, 2019) -- New research suggests the composition of breast milk in normal weight ...

Soil contamination has long been recognized as a contributor to lead exposure in people and is now a health concern ...

UMD biologists found four bat lineages that live at least four times longer than similar-sized mammals and revealed new traits ...

Right-sided heart development requires rapid growth of precursor cells; silencing the gene Ccdc117 may impede that growth, leading to abnormal ...