A recent study reveals that oxygen tension elevation during weeks four to six promotes neurogenesis in brain organoids, ...

Aoife McHugh shares some of the lessons she learned while undergoing a cycle of IVF in Dubai. As I sat in a busy cafe in Abu Dhabi, I felt like I was on the outside of life looking in. It was June 18, ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...

Every cell in our body has a sex. But most research so far has focused on our gonads—ovaries or testes—and not on the early ...

In this valuable study, the authors demonstrate that TCF7L2 plays a role in the pathogenesis of cachexia in a mouse model of GI cancer. The results are solid, although future studies will need further ...

IVF is a series of procedures used to assist with the conception of a child outside the body, involving the egg’s extraction, fertilization with sperm in a lab, and then transferring the embryo to the ...

A rare occurrence of two brains in one body at a Berkeley pet store. One hatchling born at East Bay Vivarium turned out to be ...

Disease-causing mutations in the signaling protein BMP4 impair its secretion, but only when it is made as a homodimer.

Recent research is revealing that the earliest stages of human development, even before birth, may hold the key to predicting ...

Researchers have developed a genetic "barcoding" method to trace how stem cells in embryos become neurons and inner ear cells ...

Understanding how cells differentiate during early embryonic development is crucial for advancing regenerative medicine and ...

Although these body plans are widely recognized ... traditional distinctions between short-germ and long-germ ...