When someone says the word embryo, what do you think of? Probably that picture you’ve seen a thousand times on a thousand different news articles: a translucent orb swelling with cytoplasm being ...

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 ...

A new "atlas" of early embryonic development in mammals suggests that the process is highly chaotic — but there is some method to the madness. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Magdalena (Magda) Zernicka-Goetz, today a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology, recalled being an artistic child who enjoyed ...

The birth of a fetus is a long and complex process that continues from pregnancy to the birth of the child. There are many important stages in this process, with the help of which the baby is formed ...

The traditional way to make an embryo is to combine a sperm cell with an egg, often after dinner and a bottle of wine. But a new way may be around the corner. In recent years scientists have ...

The earliest stages of developing life have been, in many ways, a black box for researchers before now. A human blastoid is an embryo model formed from stem cells that laboratories have used to study ...

Scientists have captured a video showing the implantation of a human embryo for the first time, using a laboratory model of a uterus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...