The development of the female reproductive tract encompasses a sequence of tightly orchestrated events from embryogenesis through to sexual maturity. The primordia of the oviducts, uterus, cervix and ...

The evolutionary developmental biology of squamate limb reduction examines how genetic, developmental and ecological factors interact to produce the repeated loss or diminution of limbs in lizards and ...

Ever better experimental techniques allow us to perform experiments under tightly controlled conditions and can deliver gigantic amounts of data reflecting the complexity of biology. This has vastly ...

Systems biology is an integrative approach that examines biological systems as interconnected networks of genes, proteins, and metabolites, aiming to understand their dynamic behavior rather than ...

In 2020, researchers engineered living, programmable organisms from Xenopus laevis, calling them xenobots, which could self-assemble and even reproduce. Building on this work, scientists later ...

The undergraduate minor in molecular, cellular and developmental biology prepares students to address global challenges such as climate change, international conflict and economic inequality. The ...

The formal foundations of systems biology were articulated in the early 2000s, when Leroy Hood and colleagues at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle proposed a framework combining systematic ...