like an egg cell. However, scientists said the transition from unicellular organisms to multicellular organisms is still "very poorly understood." To understand the transition better, study author ...

What is amniotic band syndrome? Amniotic band syndrome can occur when the inner layer of the placenta, called the amnion, is damaged during pregnancy. If this happens, thin strands of tissue (amniotic ...

Eggs, in their simplest form as female reproductive cells, existed long before chickens. The breakthrough came with the evolution of hard-shelled amniotic eggs, which appeared around 325 million ...

Eating eggs may help maintain cognitive function.Photo Credit: iStock Want to boost your memory as you age? Eating eggs may help maintain cognitive function, particularly semantic memory, among women, ...

science confirms that the egg maintains temporal supremacy. However, a new study from the University of Geneva suggests that the egg could in fact predate all animal life. A single-celled organism ...

Early animal species laid eggs in water to prevent desiccation, but a groundbreaking evolutionary development—the amniotic egg—allowed animals to lay eggs on land. These amniotic eggs contained three ...

It turns out that the genetic machinery for creating eggs — the fundamental starting point of complex life — existed over a billion years before animals emerged. “It’s fascinating, a species ...

scientists have found evidence that could answer the age-old puzzle of what came first - chicken or egg? The new results suggest that the ability to form embryo-like structures may have predated the ...

per the study published in the journal Nature, leading them to declare the egg as the official predecessor. “Although C. perkinsii is a unicellular species this behavior shows that multicellular ...

Christie experienced an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE), a rare ... and started an ovulation trigger shot, which encourages egg maturation to assist pregnancy. She was thrilled when she became ...