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 ...

Eggs take exactly 21 days to hatch, and the process of chick development is an exciting opportunity for your students! We are working to create lessons, videos and resources for you to use in your ...

The age-old question of the chicken or the egg is explored through evolutionary biology. Eggs, as membrane-bound containers for embryo development, predate chickens by millions of years. However, the ...

Unfortunately the fluid-sampling system is somewhat costly, while the imaging system is only really accurate fairly late in the development of the embryo. The new technique, developed by scientists at ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We tested the hypothesis that mother birds counterbalance the negative effects of hatching asynchrony for later-hatched chicks by increasing ...