Illustration of an embryo in the early stages of development. (Design Cells/iStock/Getty Images) The first moments of life ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique ...

Chinese researchers have taken a big step toward a world in which we can cultivate organs for transplant, with the first-ever ...

In order for vertebrate embryos to develop their body axes, they require what is known as an embryonic signaling center. This ...

By tracking neural crest cells in catshark embryos, researchers discovered that the molecular toolkit behind face-building is ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

The world is full of unusual unicellular organisms and microbes, many of which have not been discovered yet. In 2017, scientists identified a single-celled marine organism called Chromosphaera ...

The first few days of a human embryo’s development, known as pre-implantation, are important. It’s when the first cells are formed, and these decide if the embryo can survive, how it will implant in ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

A human embryo ‘base edited’ so that it can’t produce a key protein (right), fails to form the mass of cells that gives rise ...

A new study uses precise base editing on human embryos for the first time, proving the NANOG gene is the master switch for body development.

CRCHUM researcher Sophie Petropoulos and her team reveal for the first time that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of ...