A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. “They are not identical,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a ...

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

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

Described in a paper in the journal Cell, the model allows scientists to study interactions between the womb and embryo, and ...

High-resolution 3D womb model gives insights into embryo implantation, infertility, and signals between embryo and mother, ...

The mystery of early embryonic communication is starting to be unraveled thanks to a new stem cell-based model.

Endometrial model will revolutionise what we know about embryo development during implantation, supporting our understanding of the causes of early pregnancy loss and serious pregnancy complications.

The young embryo may survive this exposure, but brain development may be altered to varying degrees. The study published today reveals for the first time that the harmful effects of alcohol on fetal ...

Under his microscope, Jun Wu could see several tiny spheres, each less than 1 millimetre wide. They looked just like human embryos: a dark cluster of cells surrounded by a cavity, and then another ...