Ben Stanger, MD, Ph.D. is a practicing Gastroenterologist at Penn Medicine. He is also the Hanna Wise Professor in Cancer Research and professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental biology at the ...

Studying evolution by focusing solely on fossils would leave many questions unanswered, but evolutionary developmental biology (otherwise known as "evo-devo") helps fill in the gaps. Evo-devo ...

To add to the 70 th anniversary celebrations of the British Developmental Biology Society, Nature Communications would like to highlight some of our developmental biology papers published in the ...

For centuries, clinicians and basic scientists worked side by side in a common quest to identify, understand, and heal the sicknesses of the day. Since the mid-twentieth century, however, a wedge has ...

A century after one of developmental biology’s most influential experiments, researchers have revisited the concept of the embryonic “organizer” in one of the oldest animal lineages alive today.

A newly discovered genetic clock acts as the body's developmental timekeeper, coordinating the bursts of gene activity needed ...

Human fetal tissue research has contributed to advances in developmental biology, the study of congenital diseases, ...

Research lies at the heart of the graduate experience at Boston College. Graduate students work directly with faculty in their labs while continuing their education. Current areas of faculty ...

Vincent Lynch is an expert in evolutionary developmental biology. This field, sometimes called “evo-devo,” explores the genetic and molecular mechanisms that drive differences between species. This ...

All students are expected to acquire training in biochemistry, molecular biology, cell structure and function, genetics, and developmental biology, through laboratory research, course work, and ...

The graduate program offers training in the breadth of plant biology and in specialized topics represented by the following four research areas: cell and developmental biology; environmental and ...