The team recorded the behaviour of a total of 7.8 million cells in a mouse embryo at 9.5 and 11.5 days after fertilization — a time when most mouse organs are forming. “We are the first to ...

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 ...

A stem-cell derived human embryo model showing blue cells (embryo), yellow cells (yolk sac) and pink cells (placenta). Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo ...