Most of the time, new discoveries catch our eye because of important results or fun findings. Other times, we just want to look at pretty pictures. This dreamy illustration of a zebrafish embryo ...

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

Scientists have revealed thepreserved embryos of a 200-million-year-old dinosaur species. Using a state-of-the-art particle ...

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Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights ...

Formation of the body axes is a critical part of embryonic development. They guarantee that all body parts end up where they belong and that no ears grow on our backs. The head-tail axis, for example, ...

Nucleus Genomics unveiled a $5,999 service Wednesday allowing prospective parents to rank embryos created during in vitro fertilization (IVF) by projected IQ, height, eye color and nearly 900 ...

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University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a new embryo-like model derived from adult cells that replicates key features of early human development, including the generation of blood cells.

Our basic body plan is determined early during embryonic development by the formation of three body axes. Put simply, they determine where up and down, front and back and right and left are. The ...