Inspired by the true story of the development of the first IVF baby, Joy accurately retraces the steps that brought the ...

The cells' structure and division processes not only physically resemble the earliest stages of embryonic development in ...

However, a new study from the University of Geneva suggests that the egg could in fact predate all animal life. A ...

Chromosphaera Perkins, or C. Perkins, is an ancestral species of protist. Diverging from the animal evolutionary line over a ...

The Alabama case expanded on years of legislation backed by anti-abortion advocates to define "life" at earlier and earlier ...

We all start our lives as symmetric balls of cells. In humans, during the first few weeks after fertilization, embryonic ...

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

Researchers have uncovered a link between the immune gene regulator STAT1 and hyperactive behaviors in mice, offering new ...

Early development of an embryo is solely supported by maternally deposited RNAs and proteins until its own genome is activated through a process ...

Their findings, published in Cell Reports, reshape our understanding of how complex spinal circuits are established during ...

The protein netrin1 has an entirely unanticipated role in organizing the spinal cord during early development.