The market is expanding due to delays in parenthood, leading to increased demand for fertility preservation. Technological ...

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 production ...

Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic ...

Transforming human stem cells into embryo-like structures was previously unthinkable. Yet seemingly overnight, multiple teams published initial results that reach towards this goal. Each team has a ...

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the ...

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...

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 ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...