- a variation of embryogeny.
embryogenesis
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Finding out how cells decide to become organizers during the formation of organs remains a central challenge in the study of embryogenesis, and is key to understanding embryonic development.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2024
The team also showed Golgi ribbons form at a specific timepoint during embryogenesis, which suggests that they might play a role in cell differentiation.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
Our current knowledge of animal embryogenesis and individual developmental stages is based on studies in which embryos of different ages were observed under the microscope and described in detail.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023
The fates of embryonic cells in deuterostomes can be altered if they are experimentally moved to a different location in the embryo due to indeterminant cleavage in early embryogenesis.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Ed Lewis’s discovery of master-regulatory genes that controlled the development of segments, organs, and structures solved the problem of the final stage of embryogenesis, but it raised a seemingly infinite recursive conundrum.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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