Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize ...

One of the most enduring goals in regenerative medicine is deceptively simple: replace a person's damaged or dying cells with ...

ChatGPT was extremely helpful during my first IVF cycle. It helped me make sense of all the acronyms and understand the timeline, and I was able to ask for advice along the way. I always made sure to ...

Scientists have developed a new human-based endometrial model to study embryonic implantation in the early stages of ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

New stem cell-based embryo model reveals previously unknown communication between early tissues that become the spine and muscles in the central part of the body. From the moment an embryo starts to ...

Scientists have gotten an unprecedented look at how the human embryo implants in a uterus. They did this by creating very primitive, womb-like environments in the lab. "This is really important work ...

The discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic development sheds light on the preliminary stages of human placenta formation. A team led by scientists from the University of California San Diego ...

A team of researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Spain has succeeded, for the first time, in recording in real time and in 3D the implantation of a human embryo. This ...