Dozens of labs around the world are striving to grow models of human embryos to study development, fertility and therapies.

Studying human embryonic development is complicated for several reasons. Models derived from pluripotent stem cells ...

My frozen embryo is stuck in a Russian clinic – now I’m haunted by images of the daughter I may never have - FIRST PERSON: ...

"Human evolution has occurred both due to, and in spite of, the placenta. Every pregnancy, unthinkingly, must navigate a ...

Guerreiro says, "Uncovering the mechanism behind the unusual nuclear organization that characterizes the early embryo has the ...

Video of cell division occurring in a developing fly embryo named winner of the 14th annual Nikon Small World in Motion ...

Emma was frozen on Oct. 14, 1992, and thawed by NEDC lab director Carol Sommerfelt on March 13, 2017. The NEDC said Tina ...

Scientists at the IMB have identified 5-formylcytosine (5fC) as an activating epigenetic mark that initiates gene expression ...

Researchers have gained new insights into the mechanism behind the spatial organization of DNA within the cells of early embryos. When an embryo is first formed after fertilization, each cell has the ...

A new discovery by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics (BDR) in Japan upends decades of assumptions regarding DNA replication.