Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form ...

An illustration of zebrafish heart development, showing the migration of cells in the growing embryo after 17 hours, 1 day and 2 days to form the heart. Most heart cells come from the embryonic ...

Human heart development is largely influenced by neural crest cells, which carefully regulate a key growth signal.

The neural crest is an extraordinary population of multipotent stem cells, unique to vertebrates, that plays a pivotal role in embryogenesis. Arising at the borders of the neural plate, these cells ...