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 have discovered that the earliest days of embryo development have a measurable impact on a person's future health and aging. Researchers from the University of Adelaide have discovered ...

A new "atlas" of early embryonic development in mammals suggests that ... and then eight — is highly chaotic. Once a mammal embryo contains eight cells, though, something shifts.

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 ...

From the moment sperm fuses with an egg, human embryo development involves a string of complex and little understood processes. Much of what is known about embryo development comes from animals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the possibility that it might spurred a number of nations to change their legal definitions of the embryo. Japan and Australia added language about stages of development. The Netherlands ...

A model of the human embryo derived from stem cells has been created in the lab, a breakthrough that scientists say could help understand early human development and why and how some pregnancies fail.