In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just ...

In mammalian reproduction, a significant proportion of embryos fail to implant despite a receptive uterus, suggesting that defects in epithelial remodeling at the embryo–uterine interface contribute ...

Researchers have revealed insight into why embryos erase a key epigenetic mark during early development, suggesting this may have evolved to help form a placenta. Researchers at the Francis Crick ...

Only two weeks after fertilization, the first sign of the formation of the three axes of the human body (head/tail, ventral/dorsal, and right/left) begins to appear. At this stage, known as ...

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