Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse | Aeon Videos

Native to central and southern Europe, the amphibious alpine newt breeds in shallow water, where its larvae are born, hatch and feed on plankton, before sprouting legs and moving to land. This timelapse video from the Dutch director Jan van IJken tracks the development of a single-celled zygote into the hatched larva of an alpine…

Nature review-epigenetics

Techniques that interrogate DNA methylation, histone modifications or chromatin conformations are enabling unprecedented analyses of epigenomes, including at the single-cell level. The articles in this series discuss insights into chromatin biology and the components and mechanisms of diverse epigenetic processes in health and disease, from fundamental roles in gene regulation to broader biological phenomena such…