The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, allowing for real-time observation of the chick embryo's development from laying to hatching. The study is published ...

As governments and industry move to ban the culling of male chicks, a central question continues to shape public policy, research funding and ethical debates: When can a chick embryo feel pain?

The research team discovered that glassware used to manipulate and culture fertilized eggs in the fields of assisted ...

Recently, data generated from a study in chick embryos were extrapolated to suggest that pregnant women should not use this drug because of the risk of birth defects. We conducted a controlled ...

The good news is that a new technology can help end it. Called in ovo sexing, it determines the sex of the chick embryo long before it hatches, allowing the producers to get rid of the male eggs ...

Researchers have answered a long-standing question in developmental biology by revealing the driving forces of the massive cell movements that occur during early embryonic development ...