Holligan’s embryo is far from the only one in this peculiar limbo. Millions—or potentially tens of millions—of embryos ...

Chemicals were then used to coax these stem cells into becoming four types of cell found in the earliest stages of the human embryo: epiblast cells, which become the embryo proper (or foetus ...

The first month is an exciting and sensitive time of your pregnancy . You may be excited for the journey that lies ahead, but ...

At this stage of pregnancy, it was natural to think of the embryo as a being that was able to do things, and they assumed that this was also true of the very earliest (and unknown) stages of ...

Those taken from early stage embryos - unlike adult stem cells - have the potential to become any part of the body. Stimulated by the right chemicals, they could theoretically be turned into brain ...

The synthetic embryos - only days or weeks old - could help researchers study the earliest stages of human development and explain pregnancy loss. Nobody is currently suggesting growing them into ...

The early Cambrian Kuanchuanpu biota is rich in diverse cnidarian embryos and their hatched stages, but fossilized embryos of Ecdysozoa have not been identified in this biota. In this study ...