Feathers are important for birds today, enabling flight, warmth, and communication. Now, researchers from the University of Geneva have traced the origin of feathers. Scientists believe feathers ...

Researchers have developed a method for culturing fertilized chick eggs without their shells. The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, allowing for real-time ...

Scientists have visualised the early development of the nervous system in a chicken embryo. Minyoung Kim at the University of California, San Francisco, dissected the 2-day-old embryo out of its egg ...

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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Gastrulation is one of the most important phases in early embryonic development. Before gastrulation, vertebrate embryos are simple ...

Although embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have been successfully derived from mice and rats, efforts to establish chimeric and germline-competent ESC lines in species beyond rodents have been unsuccessful.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed a method for culturing fertilized chick eggs without their shells. The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Efforts to observe chicken embryonic development date back to Aristotle date back to 300 BC. However, because the chicken's eggshell is opaque, it has been necessary to break the shell ...