A mouse embryo has now been made to write its own family tree. A recording device called the DNA Typewriter, built in Jay Shendure’s laboratory at the University of Washington, kept a running log of ...

Mammalian biology unfolds over time, within tissues and organs opaque to our eyes and instruments. We applied DNA Typewriter, ...

Following a queen rather than a hive changes how a review interprets honey bee reproduction, colony lifetimes and parental ...

Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and others detailed the case in a report last week. One twin developed the cancer ...

A molecular tracking technology called DNA Typewriter can record the cellular lineage of a mouse embryo, from a single cell to over a million.

Rice is one of the world's most familiar staple foods, but how does a single cell develop into a rice plant with specialized ...

A new review traces how light signaling pathways governing seedling de-etiolation and chloroplast biogenesis are conserved ...

There is a particular generosity in sharing what you have learned, especially when the road has not been easy. For emerging ...

Ohio artists explore themes of grief, trauma, discrimination and the Black experience for an exhibition on view at Zygote ...

The starting point of reproductionEssential to understanding sexual reproduction is the existence of "gametes." Gametes are ...

New DNA recording technology traces developmental paths from a single zygote to a fully formed body and distinguishes founder ...

People say it looks like broccoli, a tree, a bowl, a pizza, a crescent moon, a Frisbee, a pancake. Etymologically, "pancake" is closest: Placenta means cake in Latin and comes from the Greek word ...