A remarkable new microscope built by EMBL researchers allows scientists to observe the dynamics of mechanical properties inside developing embryos in real time. In 1922, French physicist Léon ...
The complex 3D shapes of brains, lungs, eyes, hands, and other vital bodily structures emerge from the way in which flat 2D sheets of cells fold during embryonic development. Now, researchers at ...
In 1922, French physicist Léon Brillouin predicted an interesting phenomenon – when light is shone on a material, it interacts with the naturally occurring thermal vibrations within it, exchanging ...
The mystery of early embryonic communication is starting to be unraveled thanks to a new stem cell-based model.
Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...
Re-engineering force-regulating proteins inside cells to control their behavior with specific wavelengths of light. Side view of a small group of optogenetically activated cells forming a furrow ...