LONDON — Policymakers and scientific groups need to specify guidelines for the burgeoning field that uses stem cells to mimic ...

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

However, a new study from the University of Geneva suggests that the egg could in fact predate all animal life. A ...

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties ...

The seeds of maritime pines remember the temperatures they experienced during early development. This memory persists in ...

Scientists in Europe believe they may have finally solved the long-debated question of which came first: the chicken or the ...

Chromosphaera Perkins, or C. Perkins, is an ancestral species of protist. Diverging from the animal evolutionary line over a ...

Early development of an embryo is solely supported by maternally deposited RNAs and proteins until its own genome is activated through a process ...

Congenital heart defects are the most common form of human birth defect, but we still don't fully understand what causes them ...

A California couple is suing a Connecticut medical company after they say that their embryos were “destroyed.” Margarita ...

When a vertebrate embryo develops, a group of cells self-organizes into the neural tube, eventually becoming the brain and ...