Developmental biology

Keratin, a tough and insoluble fibrous protein, plays a surprising role in determining mouse embryonic cell fate.

An international consortium gives a debilitating childhood disorder a name and a genetic cause.

A protein named GATA6 is key to the development of a normal pancreas in humans.

Once considered ‘junk’, certain virus-derived genomic elements have now been shown to actively regulate important developmental processes

Proper embryonic development depends on a signaling pathway that helps to preserve stem cell ‘immaturity’

Pairs of gene-regulating proteins work together to identify their proper binding sites within the genome