The earliest stages of mammalian embryo development are like an orchestra performance, where everyone must play at the exact right moment and in perfect harmony. New research identifies one of the ...

Magdalena (Magda) Zernicka-Goetz, today a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology, recalled being an artistic child who enjoyed ...

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 ...

A discovery upends decades of assumptions regarding DNA replication. The study show that DNA replication in early embryos is different from what past research has taught, and includes a period of ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding maternal control and activating its own genetic program. This critical process, ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), used CRISPR to engineer cellular models of embryos that mimic what happens in the first few days after reproductive cells meet. These ...

Human Evolution 'We can no longer ignore diseases in the deep human past': Malaria influenced early humans' migrations across Africa, study suggests Health Surgery performed on a baby in the womb, a ...