Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the formation of the spine and nervous system. Previous attempts to create ...

For the first time, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have successfully developed human stem cell models that include a functional notochord—a crucial tissue in embryonic development ...

Many four-legged animals go through embryonic stages that have similar features -- gill arches, a notochord, segmentation, and paddle-like limb buds -- as they develop into different adults.

This paper describes how the vertebrate version of the hedgehog gene-as expressed by the notochord (an embryonic structure)-induces the formation of floor plate cells and motor neurons in the ...

Section of a human trunk-organoid. The notochord (green) causes neural tissue (in blue) to be patterned (in magenta ). Cell nuclei stained in white. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Zebrafish embryos with a normally formed notochord and an abnormal, severely shortened notochord. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news ...