Over 130 mammal species can delay embryonic development, giving their offspring the best possible chance of survival in ideal ...

Then researchers placed blastoids and embryos donated after infertility treatments inside the little device and watched it ...

High-resolution 3D womb model gives insights into embryo implantation, infertility, and signals between embryo and mother, ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

Researchers have used naïve pluripotent stem cells to create an embryo model that looks and acts like a natural human embryo. They say it’s an ethical way of gaining a better understanding of ...

Fredrik Lanner is in the Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Division of Gynecology and Reproduction, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, and ...

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as ...

Transposable elements are stretches of DNA that can move around the genome. Many of these DNA sequences originate from long ...

Seals give birth only when conditions are right. After mating, a female seal can delay implantation of the embryo in the ...

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...

Over the past year or two, we have been exploring what we termed the origins—or the embryology—of human development. We examined the three pillars of development: Feelings (Affects), Language, and ...