Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Week 3 of pregnancy often feels silent and uneventful, leaving many women worried when they notice no signs of conception. During this stage, fertilisation has already occurred, the embryo is dividing ...

The journey of early pregnancy begins with fertilisation and continues as the embryo travels to the uterus. Timing plays a ...

In mammals, the fusion of sperm and oocyte gives rise to a totipotent zygote, which undergoes a series of cleavage divisions and differentiation events. During this process, the embryo transitions ...

Contributed by Xiaoliang Sunney Xie; received July 15, 2023; accepted October 17, 2023; reviewed by Will Greenleaf and Bing Ren Most current methylation profiling techniques rely on bisulfite ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is worried about cell phones. Under the department, the Food and Drug Administration has removed webpages that asserted the devices are safe, according ...

A novel screening strategy for identifying embryogenesis-related factors by integrating frozen one-cell embryos, inhibitor libraries, RNA-seq analysis, and genome-editing approaches. A research team ...

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires precise coordination; otherwise, the embryo could develop serious complications ...

CD7 is an attractive target for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in relapsed or refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Supportive results of first-in-human studies of base ...

Texas A&M researchers found a way to make stem cells produce double the normal number of mitochondria using nanoflower particles. These energized stem cells then transfer their surplus “power packs” ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...