Researchers from the University of Adelaide have discovered that the earliest days of embryo development have a measurable ...

Scientists at a technology company said Sunday they have created human embryos through cloning, drawing criticism from President Bush and lawmakers and raising new ethical questions. Advanced Cell ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. It is allowing people to do biochemistry with mammalian embryos that they couldn’t do otherwise. After a sperm fertilizes an egg, the totipotent cell divides into a ...

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. Shelby is an assistant editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD ...

Hamster two-cell embryos were vitrified using this method and the results compared with those with control embryos or embryos vitrified using the OPS method 8. Hamster embryos collected from the ...

Now - the clever bit. The cells on the inside layer of this very early embryo can make all of the cell types needed in your body. They're called stem cells. The stem cells continue to divide by ...

In a new study published in Developmental Cell, researchers led by Université de Montréal (UdeM) professor Greg FitzHarris show how the early mouse embryo gets rid of the defective or unneeded ...