Gastrulation, the process where an embryo reorganizes itself from a hollow sphere into a multilayered structure, is considered a 'black box' of human development. This is because human embryos are ...

Many birth defects and spontaneous abortions occur during the embryonic development stage known as neurulation, yet we have very little insight into how this critical developmental process unfolds in ...

Scientists funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have generated a mouse embryo model, or embryoid, that develops beyond neurulation—formation of the neural tube, which gives rise ...