Feathers are complex skin structures, and their evolutionary beginnings are still a subject of scientific debate. Scientific ...

What do you get when you combine chicken embryos, a gene named after a video game character, and a couple of scientists? A brand-new study that’s confirmed a key element in feather evolution, after it ...

Studying how neural crest cells journey through the embryo, this Caltech developmental biologist has revealed how they form major cell types, including peripheral neurons, bone, and smooth muscle. In ...

Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Vol. 40, No. 3/4 (December, 1924), pp. 171-175 (6 pages) This item is openly available as part of an Open JSTOR ...

Recently, data generated from a study in chick embryos were extrapolated to suggest that pregnant women should not use this drug because of the risk of birth defects. We conducted a controlled ...

The ability to turn off a gene of interest in a temporally and spatially controlled manner is key to the analysis of gene function in developing organisms. However, the induction of temporally ...