It’s been a tough few years on planet Earth, with a pandemic ripping across the globe, and an onslaught of record-breaking heatwaves and natural disasters. Events like these are good examples of ...

The team from the University of Yamanashi successfully developed a fertilised mouse egg into a blastocyst ... stood at 29.5 per cent for the embryos in the 1G space test and 23.6 per cent for ...

To their surprise, they found that an embryo developed extra limbs instead of genitals, with organs growing outside of the mouse's body ... in the same embryonic space as the external genitalia.

Unlike organoids, which model parts of single organs, the duo coaxed aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells to carry out fundamental processes of development to become embryo-like entities, or ...

The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across ...