A mammalian embryo in the first stage of development, when the fertilised egg has grown into a hollow ball made up of a few hundred cells.
The first session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Clinic?' offered clinical perspectives on the human embryo....
The second session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Lab?' focused on the opportunities and challenges presented by using human embryos in research...
Associate professor of biomedical science at Peking University, China, Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin, discusses the rise in preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy in Malaysia...
Stem cell models of early preimplantation human embryos have been shown to retain the capacity to pause development, using a mechanism observed in other mammals...
Poor air quality caused by wildfires may affect treatment outcomes in patients undergoing IVF...
Two Californian couples are suing a health technology company after their embryos failed to develop...
Identifying the defining characteristics of different states of stem cell pluripotency could hold the key to improving human stem cell-based embryo models...
There is no difference in the live birth rate when embryos are transferred on day five or day three, a multi-centre study in the Netherlands has shown...
Embryos have been grown in the lab for up to 25 days, the longest recorded in primates...
Lab-made model embryos triggered pregnancy responses when placed in the uteruses of female monkeys...
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