Scientists have developed a new human-based endometrial model to study embryonic implantation in the early stages of ...

A China-led team has built the world’s first mini-womb on a chip that can fully replicate the “invasion” of human embryos in the uterus during early pregnancy. Their 3D model on a microfluidic chip ...

Studying the shape of tissues and organs is critical to understanding how they are formed. Embryonic development happens in ...

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

The US biomedical funding agency also hints at future restrictions on research involving human embryonic stem cells.

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

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

A research team led by Associate Professor Hirofumi Nishizono and graduate student Masaki Kato from the Research Support Center at the Medical Research Institute of Kanazawa Medical University has ...

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form during early development, and how disruptions to this process can lead to ...

Time stops for no one. Love conquers all. Life finds a way. These and other clichés are the squishy soul of In the Blink of ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that quietly slipped into our chromosomes and never left. By tracing this viral ...