By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

The team placed blastocysts—embryos 5-6 days after fertilization that were donated following IVF procedures—onto the ...

A rare way cells survive extreme stress has just been decoded, with implications reaching far beyond the animal kingdom.

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Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic ...

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The process behind embryonic diapause could explain how cancer cells can survive long periods of metabolic stress.

At the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, mouse geneticist Antoine Peters and his team investigate how ...

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The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That ...