Gastrulation is a process common to nearly all metazoan organisms during which an embryo with distinct tissue layers develops out of a seemingly unstructured assembly of cells referred to as ...

Scientists have for the first time captured the moment a heart begins to form from embryonic stem cells. In astonishing ...

Research from Ph.D. candidate Bohan Chen in the lab of Idse Heemskerk of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at ...

Researchers have, for the first time, identified the origin of cardiac cells using 3D images of a heart forming in real-time, ...

“The heart doesn’t come from a single group of cells, it forms from a coalition of distinct cell groups that appear at different times and places during gastrulation.” The insights from the ...

to generate two others (endoderm and mesoderm), which then form various cell and tissue types. One of the earliest signs of gastrulation in reptiles, birds and mammals (amniotes) is the appearance ...

Progenitor cells that will contribute to formation of specific heart tissues are derived from distinct regions of the ...