If fruit fly wings do not develop into the right shape, the flies will die. Researchers have learned how fly embryo cells develop as they need to, opening a window into human development and possible ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Aug. 18, 2025) — Understanding how fruit fly embryos assert metabolic independence from their mothers may help scientists better understand the earliest stages of human health and ...

During early development, tissues and organs begin to bloom through the shifting, splitting, and growing of many thousands of cells. A team of MIT engineers has now developed a way to predict, minute ...

If fruit fly wings do not develop into the right shape, the flies will die. UC Riverside researchers have learned how fly embryo cells develop as they need to, opening a window into human development ...

Most of the time, new discoveries catch our eye because of important results or fun findings. Other times, we just want to look at pretty pictures. This dreamy illustration of a zebrafish embryo ...

These side-by-side time-lapse videos offer a detailed view of how cells move in a growing fruit fly embryo and of how its nervous system develops and organizes. This is a side-by-side time-lapse video ...

This looks like a “little purple pill” but is actually a fruit fly embryo undergoing a wave of cell division, traveling from one end of the embryo to the other. Look closely and try to guess which ...

Q: Can you describe how you got started in homeotic gene research? A: In the era when I was an undergraduate student -- this was in the '70s -- we were getting the first glimpse of what a gene ...

The complex 3D shapes of brains, lungs, eyes, hands, and other vital bodily structures emerge from the way in which flat 2D sheets of cells fold during embryonic development. Now, researchers at ...