The acorn worm (Saccoglossus kowalevskii) is an important research organism in evolutionary developmental biology and is collected in Woods Hole. Its eggs are very fragile and they typically don’t ...
A paper detailing the new approach, called VitelloTag, has been accepted by the journal Development. Usually, scientists use a long, thin, glass needle to inject research "cargo" into eggs or embryos, ...
A new approach for delivering miniature research tools into the interior of egg cells and embryos has been developed, resolving a major bottleneck to using the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 in many ...