Thyroid hormones are among the most important hormones that control the speed of your body’s metabolism. However, in infants, the thyroid hormone is highly critical for their brain development. Your ...

Magdalena (Magda) Zernicka-Goetz, today a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology, recalled being an artistic child who enjoyed ...

What do the earliest stages of a pregnancy look like? Embryonic development has been extensively studied, but most of our knowledge of the earliest stages of a growing baby come from stationary ...

The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...