Until about five years ago, scientists believed the pregnancy hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), was the culprit.

Molecular mechanism uncovered in mice by UC Santa Cruz researchers reveals how a father’s diet, stress, and other ...

Sexual behaviour among same-sex pairs is common in apes and monkeys, and a wide-ranging analysis suggests it does boost survival ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Max Telford does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Writing for The Conversation, Professor Max Telford (UCL Biosciences) explores a new link that may explain how animals evolved from single-celled organisms and how this fits into existing theories on ...

To biologists, a "species" is the fundamental unit of categorization for life on Earth and a key tool for protecting living creatures. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Summary: A new study using stem cell-based models reveals how early human embryo cells decide between forming the fetus or the supporting yolk sac. Understanding this decision is crucial as the yolk ...

In this issue of BioTechniques, we present an image analysis workflow to analyze geometrical and texture features of all types of mesenchymal stem cells, a simple colorimetric assay for Pseudomonas ...

This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid 17051009 and 19039010 for Scientific Research on Priority Areas from the Ministry of Education, Sports, Science, and Culture in Japan. K.K. was supported by a ...

A new study now reveals that cilia in the organizer function as sensors for mechanical force exerted by flow to shape the left-right body plan of the developing embryo. Although the human body is ...

Embryogenesis is a complex phase of conifer development involving hundreds of genes, and a proper understanding of this process is critical not only to produce embryos with different applied purposes ...