For the past ten years or so, biologists have been cultivating miniature versions of our organs in vitro. By imitating their structure and functions, these so-called organoids open the way to...
Like us, embryonic cells communicate to take decisions and thus transform from a fertilised egg to an embryo with a well-defined shape. Scientists have recently demonstrated the diversity of their...
Long reserved only to biologists, the field of embryology is becoming increasingly open to physicists, whose role is to dissect the mechanical processes of embryonic development.