In the normal embryo (left): magenta cells will become the placenta, yellow cells will become the yolk sac, and cyan cells will become the epiblast, which later forms the body. In the embryo where ...

For the first time, researchers have used a genome editing technique called base editing to identify a master gene that is essential for human embryo development. Marking the first application of base ...

A Cambridge University research team has used a precise gene-editing technique — applied for the first time to study a developmental gene in donated human embryos — to confirm that a single gene ...