An organoid-based screening platform that allows one-gene-at-a-time knockdown across a whole tissue has been used to identify the genes that regulate closure of the neural tube in humans.

Scientists have sought to capture the first days of how a person comes to be, by recreating those early moments in a lab via ...

Metabolism does more than fuel embryos—it sets their developmental rhythm. EMBL researchers found that a sugar molecule, FBP, ...

Caltech researchers have developed a powerful new method for creating embryo-like structures from stem cells that could transform how we study fertility. Using stem cells rather than a traditional ...

Sarah Coe Atkinson, IVF lab supervisor and senior embryologist, demonstrates a vitrified thaw of a frozen egg used in the process of creating an embryo at Rejoice Fertility in Knoxville, Tenn. The ...

The little clump of cells looked almost like a human embryo. Created from stem cells, without eggs, sperm, or a womb, the ...

A police investigation is ongoing after remains recovered near U.S. Highway 70 were confirmed to be human.Alamogordo police responded to the human remains at the 1400 block of U.S. 70. The remains ...

Authorities with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office discovered human remains after they were led to a shallow grave near Mount Rainier. A person of interest in a case involving a woman’s ...

Cannabis could be risky for women becoming or hoping to become pregnant. New research out today finds evidence that the drug can negatively affect women’s fertility. Scientists in Canada examined the ...