Biologists have long puzzled over how organs develop into their final shapes, and the nearly transparent bodies of young sea ...

Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding maternal control and activating its own genetic program. This critical process, ...

Despite being an essential developmental process, the understanding of human embryonic genome activation is limited, owing to the lack of in vitro cell models and ethical concerns. To advance ...

Two to three weeks after conception, an embryo faces a critical point in its development. In the stage known as gastrulation, the transformation of embryonic cells into specialized cells begins. This ...

Two separate research teams used base editing to make single-nucleotide changes in human embryos this month, targeting genes ...

A human embryo model replicates key early developmental processes and generates organ-seed cells in vitro. [Photo provided to ...

Embryonic development, also known as embryogenesis, is a cornerstone in understanding the origins of life. But studying this marvel of intricate and layered biological processes in people faces ...

"Guinea pigs can become a valuable model for understanding how early disturbances in embryonic development can affect health later in life. Since guinea pig development mirrors that of humans better ...