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 ...

Many state legislatures are seriously considering human embryos at the earliest stages of development for legal personhood. Total abortion bans that consider humans to have full rights from the ...

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 ...

To become a whole human being, this single cell must multiply rapidly ... Based on them, we suspected that 5fC must do ...

Researchers led by the Institute of Molecular Biology have found that 5-formylcytosine (5fC), a DNA alteration, acts as an ...

embryo development and transfer policies, cumulative live birth rates, and the key findings of the authors’ research. IVF, with or without intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), involves the ...

Human embryos are far more likely to die than come to term, an evolutionary trait seen across species. Laws granting personhood at conception ignore built-in embryo loss, with potentially grave ...

To understand embryo development better, the researchers wanted to know how the epigenome regulates ... organization that ...

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

Culturing pluripotent stem cells to replicate different stages of embryonic development allows researchers to more easily ...