By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

Researchers have used naïve pluripotent stem cells to create an embryo model that looks and acts like a natural human embryo. They say it’s an ethical way of gaining a better understanding of ...

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

The debate over what Florida students learn about fetal development is back on the docket for another round of potentially ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...

High-resolution 3D womb model gives insights into embryo implantation, infertility, and signals between embryo and mother, ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development - including the ...

Scientists have created a stem cell-derived model of the human embryo in the lab by reprogramming human stem cells. The breakthrough could help research into genetic disorders and in understanding why ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...