Studying embryogenesis is key to unraveling the mysteries of early life. luismmolina/iStock via Getty Images Plus Embryonic development, also known as embryogenesis, is a cornerstone in understanding ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

A team of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom says they have created the world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm ...

At this stage, known as gastrulation, a flat and featureless sheet of cells folds into a living blueprint for the body, a fleeting transformation into axes and layers that will determine how every ...

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 ...

Early human development is a complex, multistep process that’s even more complicated to study in the lab. Models made from stem cells avoid some of the trouble with using real human embryos. In June, ...

Scientists have created “synthetic” mouse embryos from stem cells without a dad’s sperm or a mom’s egg or womb. The lab-created embryos mirror a natural mouse embryo up to 8 ½ days after fertilization ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Min Yang, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) Embryonic development, also ...