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10.10.2022
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...
Article
10.08.2020
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...
Video
10.14.2015

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.