A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first ...

Growing up in Brazil, Marcos Simões-Costa often visited his grandparents’ farm in the Amazon. That immersion in nature — squawking toucans and all — sparked his fascination with science and evolution.

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Researchers announce the development of a mouse embryo model, complete with beating hearts and the foundations for a brain and other organs, out of mouse embryonic stem cells. Just two weeks after ...

In what’s reported as a world-first achievement, biologists have grown mouse embryo models in the lab without the need for fertilised eggs, embryos, or even a mouse – using only stem cells and a ...

Scientists have created a stem cell-derived model of the human embryo in the lab by reprogramming human stem cells. The breakthrough could help research into genetic disorders and in understanding why ...

A 70-million-year-old dinosaur embryo, preserved in remarkable detail, has been discovered inside a fossilized egg. The find is one of the most well-preserved dinosaur embryos ever uncovered, offering ...

Australian scientists successfully produced the first kangaroo embryo in the world through in vitro fertilisation, which is seen as a groundbreaking discovery for species conservation. Since the ...

Emma Gibson was conceived on Oct. 14, 1992. However, rather than being born nine months after conception, she was frozen as an embryo. More than 24 years later, she was thawed and, following IVF, was ...

The Supreme Court of Alabama’s ruling that human embryos are children is erroneous and absurd. It has already intimidated fertility specialists in the state to halt efforts at creating babies from ...

Scientists captured first real-time 3D video of human embryo implantation, revealing mechanical forces behind successful ...