Dozens of labs around the world are striving to grow models of human embryos to study development, fertility and therapies.

When an embryo is first formed after fertilization, each cell has the potential to become any cell type ... DOI: ...

Culturing pluripotent stem cells to replicate different stages of embryonic development allows researchers to more easily ...

A new discovery by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics (BDR) in Japan upends decades of assumptions regarding DNA replication.

Animal-cloning company ViaGen Pets reports that demand is strong for its pet cloning and cell preservation services. The company says it has cloned more than 1,000 dogs and ...

Careful management by a team of specialists is needed to balance disease control and fetal health in patients with CML who ...

Some 8 to 10 percent of our DNA is actually leftover from ancient ... to four pluripotent cells (which can “give rise” to any kind of cell in any body or embryo). This development is controlled by a ...

Scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab. This raises the distant possibility of doing the same for people ...

and 4-cell stages than after the 8-cell stage of embryogenesis. The 4-cell embryo can now be seen as a transitional stage during which uniform DNA replication becomes sequential, while still ...

The embryonic cell surface is rich in glycosphingolipids (GSLs), which ... α1,2-fucosyl glycoconjugates inhibit the BMP ...