The U.K.’s independent Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted scientists legal permission to alter the DNA of embryos in the first seven days after fertilization, although they are ...

In 1896, in his seminal work "The Cell in Development and Inheritance", the cell biologist Edmund B. Wilson formulated a ...

Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults.

Researchers believe that understanding this process in embryo development will help understand ... the Molecular Genetics of ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Maastricht University have developed a technique that enables the examination of ...

Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos of a piece of faulty DNA that causes deadly heart disease to run in families. It potentially opens the door to preventing 10,000 ...

The team at Sun Yat-sen University used a technique called base editing to correct a single typo out of the three billion "letters" of our genetic code. They altered lab-made embryos to remove the ...

Some American clinics claim they can “rank” embryos for IVF using Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Polygenic risk (PGT-P), a genetic screening system which is illegal in the UK. They claim ...