The unborn offspring of a mammal. In humans, this stage of development lasts from nine weeks after fertilisation until birth.
A blood test that screens for fetal disorders during pregnancy also accurately signposts cancers in unsuspecting mothers-to-be...
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...
The transposon LINE1 is an essential regulator in early human development, researchers found...
Gene expression in the placenta is different for male and female fetuses during the first trimester...
The extra copy of chromosome 21 in individuals with Down's syndrome disrupts blood cell development during fetal growth, explaining their increased risk of developing leukaemia during childhood...
This piece by Philippa Kemp, exploring how artificial wombs could change the universal experience of birth, won the first prize in the inaugural Marcus Pembrey BioNews Writing Competition...
An artificial intelligence system selected the same embryos as an embryologist 69 percent of the time, with no significant difference in clinical pregnancy rate...
The concept of EctoLife, an artificial womb facility has been described as 'fake news', but how does it hold up now, a year after its original release?...
Stem cell lines from multiple human donors have been combined to create 3D brain organoids for the first time...
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