Finally, 10 years on, the trilogy is complete. Patrick Tam and Janet Rossant, two of the most respected mouse developmental biologists, have produced an exceptional book. Right from the outset, it ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the ...

Scientists in Cambridge have created synthetic mouse embryos in ... at a very early stage of development, a rare event which, while superficially looking like an embryo, bears defects which ...

Protein modifications are key to cell survival because they ensure they do what they are supposed to do in a healthy system.

the mouse displayed traits from both the donor embryo and the iPSCs, with black fur patches and dark eyes, confirming that the ancient genes had influenced the animal’s development. It’s ...

The de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences has reached another big milestone in its mission to make extinction a thing of ...

During the development of the olfactory epithelium (OE), olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) express only one member of the odorant receptor (OR) gene family, and O ...