Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

SAN DIEGO - In what researchers describe as a historic step toward de-extinction science, an international team of gen ...

Neurons placed inside engineered living bodies built from frog cells self-organize, become active, and reshape movement ...

In early embryos, the first cell divisions must be extremely rapid and precisely controlled to ensure successful development. This balance is found to arise from a tight coupling between the clock ...

When Associate Professor Eliezer Calo PhD '11 was applying for faculty positions, he was drawn to MIT not only because it's ...

New research links Wnt signalling to aggressive paediatric liver cancer and chemoresistance. Learn what this means for treatment.

Discover how an ancient gene influences the sex of ant, bee, and wasp embryos, impacting conservation and breeding practices.

At multiple archaeological sites across southern Africa, researchers have uncovered hundreds of unusual fragments of ostrich ...

A study said that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual habit that offers insight into the evolution of the modern human genome.

A picture taken on March 26, 2018 shows a moulding of a Neanderthal man face displayed for the Neanderthal exhibition at the ...

Discover animals with the longest gestation periods, including elephants, sperm whales, rhinoceroses and walruses. Learn why ...