A University of California, Riverside study reports that cells in the earliest stages of human development could be susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, offering new insight ...

Stem cell-derived embryo models offer scientists a promising way to investigate the earliest stages of human development, but ...

Treating inherited diseases is one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine. In the future, targeted gene corrections at the earliest stages of embryonic development could help prevent certain ...

China has sent artificially constructed human embryo models to the Tiangong space station, marking the first known attempt to study early-stage human embryonic development in orbital microgravity. The ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development—including the production ...

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the developing fetus with what it needs to thrive during gestation. The placenta ...

Researchers report that a seven-chemical cocktail rapidly converts human pluripotent stem cells into 8-cell-like cells that ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. The team observed the emergence of the ...

A single-embryo spatial transcriptomic and metabolomic atlas maps stage-specific molecular programmes across organ primordia ...

The team observed the emergence of the three-dimensional embryo-like structures under a microscope in the lab. These started producing blood (seen here in red) after around two weeks of development - ...