Embryologists have clarified the role that retinoic acid plays in limb development. A new study showed that retinoic acid controls the development (or budding) of forelimbs, but not hindlimbs, and ...

We know much about how embryos develop, but one key stage -- implantation -- has remained a mystery. Now, scientists have discovered a way to study and film this 'black box' of development. This new ...

THE publication of this volume supplies a long-felt want. Many will remember the pleasure with which the first appearance of an English volume solely devoted to embryology was hailed. But there was a ...

IN the history of angiosperm embryology there have been three distinct periods: the first, in which the chief aim was to unravel the chief facts regarding the development of the pollen and embryo sac, ...

LA JOLLA, Calif., June 9, 2009 -- Gregg Duester, Ph.D., professor of developmental biology at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), along with Xianling Zhao, Ph.D., and colleagues, have ...