Pregnant women should avoid menthol-flavored vapes, warns new research. The chemicals in mentholated e-cigarettes may poses ...

Pregnant women should avoid menthol-flavoured vapes, warns new research. The chemicals in mentholated e-cigarettes may pose ...

The precursor cells of the spine and ribs are somitic mesoderm cells, which arise from the sides of the embryo's back and form—besides bones—also muscles and parts of the skin. The third group ...

A new method can be used to identify factors involved in the specialization of naïve endothelial cells to tissue-specific endothelial cells.

The Andersson Lab at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biolgy, Karolinska Institutet has been awarded a grant of DKK 3,990 ...

Menthol from vaping during pregnancy may activate stress channels in embryos, disrupting development and increasing birth ...

Research suggests that menthol, a common flavor chemical in electronic cigarettes, could pose risks to fetal development.

More information: Delia Ricolo et al, Autocrine Wingless constricts the Drosophila embryonic gut by Ca +2-mediated repolarisation of mesoderm cells, EMBO Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44319-025 ...

Etemadi explained that gastrulation involves movement of epiblast cells—cells that can differentiate into any cell type in the body—to form the definitive endoderm and the mesoderm.