LONDON — Policymakers and scientific groups need to specify guidelines for the burgeoning field that uses stem cells to mimic ...

When a vertebrate embryo develops, a group of cells self-organizes into the neural tube, eventually becoming the brain and ...

The seeds of maritime pines remember the temperatures they experienced during early development. This memory persists in ...

Scientists in Europe believe they may have finally solved the long-debated question of which came first: the chicken or the ...

In 1896, in his seminal work “The Cell in Development and Inheritance”, the cell biologist Edmund B. Wilson formulated a ...

A California couple is suing a Connecticut medical company after they say that their embryos were “destroyed.” Margarita ...

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties ...

Congenital heart defects are the most common form of human birth defect, but we still don't fully understand what causes them ...

Early development of an embryo is solely supported by maternally deposited RNAs and proteins until its own genome is activated through a process called zygotic genome activation (ZGA). Recent research ...

"In the early 7th century, Allah (God) meticulously revealed in the Quran, the process of human development in a comprehensive chronological order." ...

Our Professor of Healthcare Law, Emma Cave, has chaired a working group looking into how research involving human stem ...