An international team of experts in embryology and bioethics has published the first white paper on the use of embryonic ...

Caltech researchers have developed a powerful new method for creating embryo-like structures from stem cells that could transform how we study fertility. Using stem cells rather than a traditional ...

Chinese researchers have taken a big step toward a world in which we can cultivate organs for transplant, with the first-ever ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

Much was promised in the late 1990s, but the challenge of advances such as growing whole human organs has been difficult to deliver, writes Simon Roach ...

The stem cell-based embryo model (SCBEM) takes advantage of the flexibility of pluripotent stem cells (non-reproductive cells that can give rise to many different types of cells) to resemble that of ...

Stem cell-based embryo models, which recapitulate symmetry breaking, pattern formation and tissue morphogenesis during early development, provide promising experimental tools to study the development ...

For the first time, stem cells typically considered restricted to forming body tissues spontaneously formed a yolk-sac-like structure in a model of the human embryo. Stem cell models of human embryos ...

Illustration of an embryo in the early stages of development. (Design Cells/iStock/Getty Images) The first moments of life ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development - including the ...

A new study uses precise base editing on human embryos for the first time, proving the NANOG gene is the master switch for body development.