Researchers have developed a theoretical framework that can reproduce and predict the patterns associated with gastrulation in a chicken embryo. Gastrulation is one of the most important phases in ...

Graduate student Shubham Sinha (left) and assistant professor of physics Vivek Prakash (right) stand in front of projections of cell motion inside chicken embyros that they captured. Their research, ...

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Gastrulation is one of the most important phases in early embryonic development. Before gastrulation, vertebrate embryos are simple ...

New biophysics research adds to our knowledge about the origins of left-right asymmetry in the body. Most animals, including humans, have bilateral symmetry, which means our bodies are pretty ...