A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

Molecular mechanism uncovered in mice by UC Santa Cruz researchers reveals how a father’s diet, stress, and other ...

Researchers have used naïve pluripotent stem cells to create an embryo model that looks and acts like a natural human embryo. They say it’s an ethical way of gaining a better understanding of ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to study this moment in humans because of ethical restrictions and limited access to ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

The debate over what Florida students learn about fetal development is back on the docket for another round of potentially ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...