Researchers have created human embryos by taking nuclei from ordinary skin cells, placing them into donated eggs, and ...

The cephalic furrow is a linear bend in the tissue that can be seen in the side view (yellow asterisks, upper left) or in the cross-section view (yellow arrows, upper right) in a common fruit fly ...

It’s not always easy to choose whether to store, donate or discard extra IVF embryos. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in ...

A recent study in Nature Cell Biology identified guinea pigs as promising small animals to model preimplantation development, a critical step in human embryogenesis. Stem cells provide opportunities ...