development

The Rockefeller University geneticist is tracing the full lifespan of individual cells to better understand how and why humans age.

Researchers explore the idea that molecular patterns in individual cells could underlie the development of a left and a right in animals.

Researchers use imaging to show how actin fibers tilt and then swirl to create left-right asymmetry in the cell.

Mintz’s experiments over her six-decade career were foundational to cancer and genetics research.

Researchers provide evidence that the Alzheimer’s-associated protein calibrates a signaling pathway that is conserved across the animal kingdom.

In both a mouse model and the hospital records of more than 3 million children, researchers found a connection between strong immune activation in males and later symptoms of autism spectrum disorder.

Work in rodents shows that the bacteria living in a mother’s gut can produce immunomodulatory metabolites and influence the production of maternal antibodies—both of which can affect her offspring’s development.

Bacteria in the gut influence the production of antibodies and themselves secrete metabolites. In a pregnant woman, these compounds may influence immune development of her fetus.

Spontaneous waves of nerve impulses flowing across the retina help mouse pups practice motion detection for when they eventually open their eyes.

Human stem cells injected into early monkey embryos proliferate and contribute to multiple cell lineages over 20 days of embryonic development.

The University of California, Davis, professor is a pioneer in teasing apart the changes in gene expression that drive root development.

Neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini began her Nobel Prize–winning work in a makeshift laboratory in Italy during the Second World War.

Elevated levels of a neurotoxin in northeastern Brazil’s drinking water and a high incidence of microcephaly in the region led scientists to look for a link, and they found one.

A zinc-sensing protein found in fruit fly intestines regulates the insect’s growth and feeding behavior.

Florence Sabin was known for her pioneering research and efforts to support women in science.

A tool for identifying jumping gene insertions in DNA sequencing data turns up possible explanations for four patients’ rare developmental disorders.

A single-cell map of C. elegans’s transcriptome during development finds cell lineages that start out genetically different and end up as cells of similar function and genetic profile.

Juvenile birds learn the length of the sounds in a song from a false memory introduced via optogenetics, instead of from real interactions with a tutor bird.

Enforcement of the Endangered Species Act will be altered, easing protections for the most critically threatened plants and animals.