Researchers have developed a method for culturing fertilized chick eggs without their shells. The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, allowing for real-time ...

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In more terrible news from the tiny-bits-of-plastic front: a recent study from researchers at the Netherlands’ Leiden University found that nanoplastics — particles even smaller than microplastics — ...

Researchers have developed a theoretical framework that can reproduce and predict the patterns associated with gastrulation in a chicken embryo. Gastrulation is one of the most important phases in ...

THE value of the developing egg in the study of many viruses is now well established, and the chicken embryo method of passage has proved of great use in propagating these viruses, which, as a rule, ...

Worldwide, approximately 7 billion day-old chicks are killed by suffocation or maceration because the factory farming industry has no use for them chicken hatching from its egg on an egg tray. The egg ...

From the moment an embryo starts to take shape, two-way communication is critical for making sure tissues and organs develop ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Efforts to observe chicken embryonic development date back to Aristotle date back to 300 BC. However, because the chicken's eggshell is opaque, it has been necessary to break the shell ...