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 ...

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 ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique ...

Altering a single gene in human embryonic cells has revealed that NANOG plays a key role in early embryo development, ...

UCI Health, the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine, has opened the world's first in-human embryonic stem cell-derived clinical trial for Huntington's disease.

Understanding the mechanisms of early human embryogenesis is pivotal for addressing global health challenges — from infertility and congenital defects to adult diseases rooted in developmental ...

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 ...