A collection of studies that chart how mammalian brain cells grow and differentiate is a ‘very valuable’ tool for ...

Fredrik Lanner is in the Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Division of Gynecology and Reproduction, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, and ...

Despite being an essential developmental process, the understanding of human embryonic genome activation is limited, owing to the lack of in vitro cell models and ethical concerns. To advance ...

The sperm is not a passive supplier of genetic material to the egg. A study from Linköping University, Sweden, shows that ...

Dr. Robert Prevedel (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), and Dr. Lukas Krainer (Prospective Instruments) have launched an ...

Nearly half the embryos studied underwent developmental arrest because of genetic mishaps in early development—a revealing insight that suggests more IVF babies could come to term with changes in the ...

The enigmatic facial morphology of our Neanderthal cousins, characterized by a robust and prominent jaw, finds part of its explanation in the least known areas of our genetic heritage. A team ...

When Berna Sozen, PhD, assistant professor of Developmental Stem Cell Biology at Yale, was in her first weeks of pregnancy, she couldn’t help but wonder about what exactly was going on in the “black ...

City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals ...

Researchers have developed the first-ever embryo-like model from human embryonic stem cells, a workaround that will let them examine birth defects and diseases they couldn’t otherwise, given ethical ...

A reverse-image search of the photo using Google Lens (archived here) revealed that the image has been in circulation since at least 2019. Despite the absolutely boopable snoot, Snopes determined this ...