Scientists have created the first detailed day-by-day map of human embryo development using single-cell technology.

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...

EMBL researchers found metabolism plays a signaling role during embryonic development, not just an energy-providing one. In mouse embryos, metabolic activity slowed the segmentation clock that ...

A genetic mutation commonly found in cancer patients may also affect how the human body develops in the womb, according to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop ...

The fish that limbed vertebrates evolved from don't have obvious digit equivalents, and the most common types of fish just ...

New EMBL research discovers an unexpected relationship between metabolism and cell communication during embryonic development ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

For the past three months the chatter of the Arctic Tern colony has served as the soundtrack of the summer breeding season. The Arctic Tern is not the only bird that spends its breeding season in the ...

Laertis Ikonomou, associate professor of oral biology, is principal investigator of a two-year, $435,167 R21 grant from the ...

The firm has grown “primordial germ cells” (early embryonic cells) from Nicobar pigeons, the dodo’s closest living relative, ...