Hebrew University researchers say they have discovered that fish embryos are able to decide when they want to be born. Dr. Matan Golan from the university’s Volcani Institute, who led the team ...

With its specificity, clarity and relative rapidity of detection, FISH remains the technique of choice for direct visualization of DNA and RNA at the single cell, tissue and whole-embryo level.

One of the fish’s advantages is clear—literally. Because embryos are transparent and develop outside the mother’s body, scientists can manipulate genes to model human diseases and directly ...

Cell intercalation movements occur during and after gastrulation of amphibian and teleost fish (anamniotes ... are expressed in an area of the chick embryo similar to that undergoing intercalation ...