Men have nipples because embryos are sexually neutral for their first six weeks. Here's the developmental blueprint behind ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique ...

To better understand the effectiveness of infertility treatment, it is necessary to study the processes that occur during the first week of embryonic development. At this stage, the embryo begins to ...

A research team from Rotterdam has identified a link between ambient temperature in early pregnancy and embryo development.

An international team of experts in embryology and bioethics has published the first white paper on the use of embryonic ...

Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

Formation of the blastocyst is a critical event in embryogenesis occurring in the first week of human development. Two sequential cell fate decisions segregate the embryonic pluripotent epiblast from ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development—including the production ...

Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize itself into a complex organism. It underpins the diversity in the animal ...