Week 3 of pregnancy is a critical stage when the embryo begins to grow rapidly. During this week, cells divide at an ...

Selecting the healthiest embryo is one of the most important steps in in‑vitro fertilization (IVF), yet it remains one of the ...

Rowan University biology professor Natasha Shylo is exploring left-right asymmetry development with a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize itself into a complex organism. It underpins the diversity in the animal ...

Conditional genetics and single-embryo RNA-seq show that SETDB1 extinguishes the transient, retroelement-driven transcriptional programs of the totipotent two-cell state to facilitate the exit from ...

A study reported that the conventional method of searching follicular fluid didn’t find all the eggs. The new technology ...

In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) is commonly regarded as a high-tech and lab-intensive fertility treatment, the outcome of which ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have shown for the first time that, before they can start developing into egg and sperm cells, the embryonic ...

In human cells, DNA carries chemical or "epigenetic" marks that decide how genes will be used in different tissues. Yet in a ...

Week 3 of pregnancy marks a crucial phase when your baby’s genetic blueprint begins to guide development. Although DNA is ...

Insights from theoretical physics are helping scientists understand how living cells process information and use it to self-organise Researchers ...

A new books tells the stories of scientists ‘ridiculed, exiled, and Imprisoned for being right.’ Nuno Castel-Branco is a historian of science at the University of Oxford and writes the Stories of ...