A hybrid embryo is a mixture of both human and animal tissue. There are several types of hybrid embryo (listed below), but recent controversy has focused on cytoplasmic embryos. These are created ...

Model used to create a cellular ‘hologram’ of a mouse embryo could be used to visualize development in any species.

Chemicals were then used to coax these stem cells into becoming four types of cell found in the earliest stages of the human embryo: epiblast cells, which become the embryo proper (or foetus ...

Now - the clever bit. The cells on the inside layer of this very early embryo can make all of the cell types needed in your body. They're called stem cells. The stem cells continue to divide by ...

Scientists have observed a type of cell division in a prehistoric unicellular organism that resembles the embryonic ...