An international team of experts in embryology and bioethics has published the first white paper on the use of embryonic ...

The embryos cannot develop into humans, and are being used to study development in outer space.

Chinese researchers sent artificial human embryo models into space to study how microgravity may affect early human ...

The team observed the emergence of the three-dimensional embryo-like structures under a microscope in the lab. These started producing blood (seen here in red) after around two weeks of development - ...

Two new breakthroughs show how hard it is to know when the world has changed.

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development - including the ...

A new study using stem cell-based models has shed new light on how the human embryo begins to develop, which could one day benefit the development of fertility treatment. A new study using stem ...

The discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic development sheds light on the preliminary stages of human placenta formation. A team led by scientists from the University of California San Diego ...

A lot happens in the first month of human embryo development as a single cell morphs into multitudes. Yet despite its significance, this period is basically a “black box” to researchers, says stem ...

"Can humans survive and reproduce in space?" ...

Varun K. A. Sreenivasan is in the Institute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany, and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, ...