Scientists have captured the first instance of an early stage embryo forming, which could help solve the 'mystery' of how congenital birth defects start in humans. Australian researchers watched ...

After a sperm fertilizes an egg, the totipotent cell divides into a zygote. As division continues, some cells divide into the growing mass, distinguishing cells that form the embryo (epiblast) from ...

Scientists in China have manipulated embryonic stem cells to create laboratory mice with two male parents that managed to ...

Clumps of embryonic stem cells given one brief molecular stimulation start arranging themselves in a way that resembles a mouse embryo, down to the timing of when the cells switch on particular ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the trajectory towards the optimum? And can we 'derive' it in a purely ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and LMU reveal how transposable elements – ancient viral DNA remnants – reactivate during ...