In the earliest stage of life, animals undergo some of their most spectacular physical transformations. Once merely blobs of dividing cells, they begin to rearrange themselves into their more ...

The architecture of the body is not encoded as a formal blueprint; rather, it's the tightly orchestrated activation and ...

An innovative Weizmann Institute technique for tracking the earliest stages of embryonic development is applied for the first time in rabbits. No one would ever confuse a human being with a mouse, a ...

Small fold – big role: A tissue fold known as the cephalic furrow, an evolutionary novelty that forms between the head and the trunk of fly embryos, plays a mechanical role in stabilizing embryonic ...

Using just four ingredients, human skin cells can be converted into embryonic stem cell-like cells, scientists from Japan and the United States reported in research released Tuesday. In research ...

Scientists have created embryo models to help study the mysteries of early human development, the medical problems that occur before birth and why many pregnancies fail. These models are made from ...

Long before human bone marrow takes over the task of producing blood, discrete waves of blood cell production occur in the developing embryo. Miriana Dardano, a postdoctoral researcher in Zweigerdt’s ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...