Pioneering research led has provided new insight into formation of the human embryo. Pioneering research led by experts from the University of Exeter's Living Systems Institute has provided new ...

The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) is pleased to announce its collaboration with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on a newly awarded $2.8 million Discovery Stage ...

At this stage, known as gastrulation, a flat and featureless sheet of cells folds into a living blueprint for the body, a ...

An extraordinary new study has detailed the development of a nearly complete mouse embryo – with muscles, blood vessels and a tiny beating heart – grown in a lab dish out of stem cells. The research ...

Overture Life’s DaVitri automated in vitro fertilisation (IVF) system has gained a CE mark in Europe, as use of the fertility ...

It has only recently become known that two parallel systems of blood formation exist in the body, originating from different ...

The tiny mouse embryo has a heart that beats. Its muscles, blood vessels, gut and nervous system are beginning to develop. But this embryo is unusual: It was made in a lab, out of mouse embryonic stem ...

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 ...

Embryo freezing offers high success rates for couples delaying pregnancy. Learn who should consider it, how the process works ...

New advances in stem cell research will help scientists battle diseases, develop drugs and, eventually, grow organs for transplant. The tiny mouse embryo has a heart that beats. Its muscles, blood ...