Discover how lab-grown organoids are advancing disease research, drug testing and precision medicine, and why they cannot yet ...

Cellular reprogramming enables scientists to reset the biological clock of mature human cells without stripping away their ...

The fetal brain is doing far more before birth than scientists once understood. The difficult question is where complex brain activity ends and conscious experience begins.

A new Frontiers review argues that no human has ever conceived in space and that making babies beyond Earth may require ...

As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once "blank slate" cells begin to take on more specialized ...

After years of quiet maturation, new approach methodologies and emerging clinical success for cell therapies are fueling ...

As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once "blank slate" cells begin to take on more specialized ...

The use of a precise gene editing technique to edit human embryos has caught the attention of academics and society, yet ...

‘Cell recorders’ based on gene editing have captured mouse development in unprecedented detail. Two independent teams of scientists published the findings on 8 October in Science and in Cell. One team ...

In a dusty Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity warehouse last week, a robotic arm-based printer designed for complex geometries and smaller-footprint architectural build squeezed out neat lines ...

For years, scientists have grown ball-like structures from human stem cells that mimic some of the earliest stages of embryonic life, hoping to unlock the secrets of fertility, pregnancy loss and ...

For decades, scientists have dreamed of peering into the earliest days of human life, those fragile moments when a fertilized egg becomes a tiny ball of cells, and the foundations of pregnancy are ...