Retear and failure to heal are significant post-operative complications in rotator cuff repair surgery despite the use of commercially available rotator cuff repair grafts. Advances in tissue ...

Two to three weeks after conception, an embryo faces a critical point in its development. In the stage known as gastrulation, the transformation of embryonic cells into specialized cells begins. This ...

Salamanders regrow entire limbs. Mice, like humans, grow scar tissue instead. A study published in Science now offers a ...

Figure 1: A light micrograph of a mouse embryo. RIKEN researchers have created synthetic molecular pathways that illuminate embryonic development. © ARTHUR CHIEN ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. What do the earliest stages of a pregnancy look like? Embryonic development has been extensively studied, but most of our ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just ...

A study out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has unveiled new insights into the inflammatory processes behind periodontitis, a common and debilitating gum disease. Research conducted ...