Imagine if you could repair damaged tissue in your organs. That is what stem cell research is working towards, because stem cells have tremendous potential to produce the cells of organs such as the ...

Researchers are studying development of human pre-implantation embryos in an effort to improve success of embryo growth and development.

The law of hydrodynamics can contribute to our understanding of how a cluster of embryonic cells can transform into an animal within the first 36 hours of development, according to new research. The ...

Around eight days after fertilization, the human embryo implants in the endometrium (the tissue that lines the uterus). After implantation, it enters a developmental phase that is not well understood ...

An epigenetic factor that is essential for producing mature egg cells in mice has been identified by RIKEN researchers for ...

Biologists and engineers have developed a new non-invasive image processing technique to visualize embryo formation. Researchers were able to see, for the first time, the movement of all of the cells ...

Nearly half the embryos studied underwent developmental arrest because of genetic mishaps in early development—a revealing insight that suggests more IVF babies could come to term with changes in the ...

In the first days after an egg is fertilized, throwing a few key genetic switches revs up human embryo development, two new studies suggest. That ignition pattern differs from the one that fires up ...

The research, presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual conference, which ends today in Geneva, Switzerland, describes for the first time the use of an ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Remnants of ancient viruses survive in human DNA, and without them, we would not form or function properly. LTR5Hs is the newest known group of viral ...