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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 – ...

Anytime embryonic cells or tissue come up in science, debate and ethical discussions are sure to follow. Yet, having appropriate in vitro models would not only make studying the diverse aspects of ...

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 ...

Morphogens are the secreted molecules that pattern embryonic tissues. These molecules are important not only for the embryo during development, but also for the adult during tissue repair. However, ...

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 ...