A new theory aims to explain how the complex vertebrate body, with its skeleton, muscles, nervous and cardiovascular systems, arises from a single cell during development and how these systems evolved ...

The observation that somite number and size are regulated independently prompted the 'clock and wavefront' model, which postulates that spatial and temporal inputs are combined to define somite size ...

A diagram captioned: "experimental setting, upper view. The subject, television, and mirror (or metronome) can be seen." A diagram shows an overhead view of the setting. The subject faces a mirror or ...

Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have generated a digital zebrafish embryo - the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate. With a newly developed ...

This news release is available in German. Many animals exhibit segmental patterns that manifest themselves during development. One classical example is the sequential and rhythmic formation the ...