Morphogens are molecules that travel from biological cell to cell to pattern tissues in the embryo. These molecules are important not only for the embryo during development, but also for the adult ...

CINCINNATI – Scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center believe they have answered some critical questions that address how signaling molecules, called morphogens, work. Morphogens ...

Researchers have created a way to guide and control the development of stem cells into specific tissues and organs, opening the door to developing a means of one day tackling complex diseases like ...

Despite its eventual complexity, the developing nervous system seems to be directed by an elegant economy of cues. We are beginning to learn that factors can perform more than one job during its ...

Researchers working in the Development and Growth Control Lab at IRB Barcelona reveal that the Dpp gene (BMP in humans) plays a double role in the structural organisation and growth of the wings of ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria have discovered a key control mechanism that cells use to self-organize during early embryonic ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular “traffic cops” known ...

Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, demonstrate how morphogens combined with cell adhesion can generate tissue domains with a sharp boundary in an in vitro ...

a) A classical morphogen (pink) elicits differential gene expression (represented by the black, red and blue bars) by activating different genes at different concentrations. b) One example of such a ...

For a tiny embryo to develop into an adult organism, its cells must develop in precise patterns and interact with their neighbors in carefully orchestrated ways. To create complex tissues and organs – ...

Recent advances that have enabled the growth of tissue cultures into organoids and embryoids have heightened interest as to how tissue growth is controlled during the natural processes of embryo ...

The function of the genes that drive wing development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster have now been clarified by researchers. This study unveils that the Dpp morphogen is necessary for wing ...