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 ...

The development of many major organs including the heart and the neural tube (which goes on to form the brain and spinal cord) is very similar,' she said. Quail embryos are also easier to record ...

Figure 2: In this 5-day-old chicken embryo imaged with an Olympus SZX12 stereo microscope equipped with fluorescence optics, GFP can easily be detected in the spinal cord. It is also important to ...

For the first eight weeks, the developing baby is called an embryo. It looks like a tadpole. At about three weeks, the neural tube, which becomes the brain and spinal cord, is forming. At about ...