A new study from EMBL Rome shows how embryos precisely coordinate gene activity during early development. The research is ...

For years, scientists have grown ball-like structures from human stem cells that mimic some of the earliest stages of ...

Early embryonic development in humans remains poorly understood. A 3D cellular model called bilaminoids, generated using ‘naive’ pluripotent stem cells and derived cell types, successfully ...

Children conceived through frozen embryo transfers prepared with hormone replacement therapy tend to score about the same on early childhood intelligence tests as those conceived using natural cycle ...

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Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the ...

When planning a trip, it's rare that you don't have a choice of route. One may be more direct, another more scenic; but regardless of the time or route taken, the destination is the same. This concept ...

New work in Arabidopsis reveals that an embryo-derived PIPL7 peptide signals through the IKU2 receptor kinase to polarize ...

Eating large amounts of ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked not only to reduced fertility in men, but also to slower growth in early embryos, and smaller yolk sacs, which are essential for early ...

Embryos in pregnancies that end in miscarriage take longer to develop in the womb than those in pregnancies that result in live births, according to new research published today in Human Reproduction.