Scientists have recreated the human womb lining in the lab, revealing how embryos implant and survive after fertilisation, ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

Then researchers placed blastoids and embryos donated after infertility treatments inside the little device and watched it ...

Researchers have gained new insights into the mechanism behind the spatial organization of DNA within the cells of early embryos. When an embryo is first formed after fertilization, each cell has the ...

Researchers have mapped the complex molecular interactions that occur during the earliest stages of human development. New international research shines a light on the role of transcription factors ...

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as ...

Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic development.

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

The model allows scientists to study interactions between the womb and embryo, and look for causes behind implantation ...