The single cell formed immediately after fertilisation, once the genetic information of the egg and sperm have fused.
During the first cell divisions of mouse embryos a period of instability has been uncovered, which translates into chromosomal errors...
Identifying the defining characteristics of different states of stem cell pluripotency could hold the key to improving human stem cell-based embryo models...
The discovery of a protein responsible for binding and fusing sperm and egg cells in mice could shed light on possible causes of fertility and treatments for it...
Changes that occur to DNA that could cause IVF embryos to stop dividing have been identified...
Human cells behaving like those at a crucial embryological milestone have been identified, enabling insights into early development...
The Centre for Bioethics and Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, presented a fascinating talk on the opportunities for great medical advancements, and grave harm, presented to researchers by CRISPR/Cas9 and other apporaches to genome editing...
It is becoming clear that our gene functions are influenced by a variety of 'epigenetic' factors throughout our lives and even before we are conceived...
Students of bioethics sometimes imagine that the philosophical, moral and legal status of the human embryo is reducible to the single question: 'Is the human embryo a person?'...
Over two weeks in March, four teams reported the self-assembly from stem cells of structures resembling human embryos...
Identical twins may not in fact be genetically identical at birth, according to a new study by researchers in Iceland...
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