b: Drawing of median section of the embryo showing the early digestive system and its blood supply. The primordial gut is a long tube extending ... The Developing Human, 7th ed.

"Zebrahub" is an atlas of cells in developing zebrafish embryos, and scientists say it will help us learn about our own ...

Gut microbiome disruption in male mice increases disease risk in offspring, indicating that preconception paternal health ...

In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of ...

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 ...

In May 2008 a cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote in the House of Commons, by 336 to 176. MPs had been debating the Human Fertilisation and ...

Many top UK scientists are calling for the current 14-day limit on embryo research to be doubled to 28-days, so they can study the unexplored secrets of early human development. Lifting the ban ...

Researchers at Sinai Health have found that a critical transition in early human development is regulated not by our genes, but by DNA elements called transposons that can move around the genome.

Yale University researchers have discovered that glucose metabolism plays a critical role in guiding the early development of ...

The liquid-handling robot has been customized to expertly prepare embryo cultures by incubating and nourishing fertilized human eggs in ... the world's first 'test tube baby,' Louise Brown ...

“The mTOR pathway is a major regulator of growth and developmental progression in mouse embryos,” said Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, corresponding author of the study. “When we treated human stem ...