A duo of sauropodomorphs; one munching on the newly evolved plants in a wet Early Jurassic environment whilst the other is looking up as if there was something hiding in the vegetation. Credit: Marcin ...

One of the most effective ways to ensure fertility preservation is through egg or embryo freezing. But which one should you choose? We spoke to Dr Chandana Narayana, Senior Consultant ...

Parents of angsty teens have almost certainly heard this line at least once: I didn’t ask to be born. For fish embryos, communication about their impending birth appears quite the opposite. A report ...

Some worry that onerous paperwork is causing embryos to be wasted. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox ...

"The instruments are already proving pivotal in understanding how embryos' function and these responses differ markedly compared to later life. This is already proving critical in helping us not ...

"The instruments are already proving pivotal in understanding how embryos' function and these responses differ markedly compared to later life. This is already proving critical in helping us not ...

A woman in Hong Kong had to travel to two different countries to attempt conceiving a baby on her own. A gay couple in the city resorted to even bigger extremes: Banned from surrogacy, they turned ...

Fish embryos use a neurohormone to control their hatching time, revealing a critical survival mechanism. (Zebrafish embryo.) Credit: Dr. Deodatta Gajbhiye New research has shown that fish embryos ...

Dr. Matan Golan of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Agricultural Research Organization—Volcani Institute led a team of researchers who uncovered how fish embryos determine the ideal ...

These processes are incompletely understood in humans, in part due to the challenge of accessing neurulation-stage embryos (3-7 weeks post-conception). Here we present findings on completion 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 ...