The heart is a ... in the mammalian embryo—it is only relatively recently that cellular and molecular approaches have gained prominence in the study of cardiac development.

“It's very fascinating to do developmental biology in a dish, to see what happens in the embryo, what happens with stem cells,” Drakhlis ... them down a developmental pathway that mimics embryogenesis ...

The development of many major organs including ... Dr White and her colleagues documented heart stem cells deep inside the embryo as they climbed into position on this cytoskeleton to craft ...

This internal left-right asymmetry is believed to begin at the very early stage of development -- when a tiny embryo is divided into two parts during a process called gastrulation. This process ...