In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding maternal control and activating its own genetic program. This critical process, ...

A study published today in the journal Developmental Cell uncovers new insights into how the heart forms during the earliest stages of embryonic development.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have revealed insight into why embryos erase a key epigenetic mark during early ...

Studying embryos to gain a greater understanding of their complex development is difficult for ethical and technical reasons. However, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel ...

Research from Ph.D. candidate Bohan Chen in the lab of Idse Heemskerk of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at ...

This enabled them to assess the overall development of the embryo, including arms and legs, the shape and length of the brain and the curvature of the embryo. 3D ultrasound and virtual reality ...

But there is now a rapidly developing field mimicking natural embryo development. This research, published in the journal Nature, is described by the Israeli team as the first "complete" embryo ...

Figuring out this legal definition is important because the technology for carrying these self-organizing structures further into development, up to the stage where an embryo becomes a fetus and ...

You might hear your doctor talk about different phases of pregnancy with specific medical terms like embryo and zygote. These describe your baby’s stages of development. Fertilization is a ...

Nearly half the embryos studied underwent developmental arrest because of genetic mishaps in early development—a revealing insight that suggests more IVF babies could come to term with changes in the ...

The synthetic embryos - only days or weeks old - could help researchers study the earliest stages of human development and explain pregnancy loss. Nobody is currently suggesting growing them into ...

Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz, a professor of development and stem cells at the University of Cambridge, said the study joins six other similar human embryo-like models published from teams around the ...