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Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos of a piece of faulty DNA that causes deadly heart disease to run in families. It potentially opens the door to preventing 10,000 ...

I write on gender equity in the workplace. Late last month, the Arizona Supreme Court decided a hotly contested case involving frozen embryos. It all started in 2014, when Ruby Torres was ...

A US-based startup called Heliospect Genomics is charging parents tens of thousands of dollars to "screen" embryos they conceive for their IQs, according to startling new reporting from The Guardian.

An inquiry into the ethical issues surrounding genetically altering a human embryo has found there is "no absolute reason not to pursue it". But appropriate measures must be put in place before it ...

The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, allowing for real-time observation of the chick embryo's development from laying to hatching. Researchers at ...

Development is the process by which a fertilized egg, or embryo, generates the cells, tissues, and organs of a new individual and assembles them into their proper form. Evolution produces the body ...

A US-based company has launched a service that lets wealthy couples test their embryos for IQ amid ongoing global discussions about the ethics of modifying human embryos, according to The Guardian.

However, many people hold the opinion that an embryo of any age has the same status as any human being as life begins at conception. at conception? at 14 days old? when there is brain activity and ...

Now - the clever bit. The cells on the inside layer of this very early embryo can make all of the cell types needed in your body. They're called stem cells. The stem cells continue to divide by ...