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 ...

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

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 ...

Human stem cell-based embryo models (hereafter referred to as embryo models) are a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of developmental biology and bioengineering. In this review, we examine ...

A popular vanilla flavoring in e-cigarettes may interfere with some of the earliest steps of human development. In lab experiments, vanillin caused embryonic stem cells to lose their ability to ...

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have won a top basic science award from the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) for developing a ...

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 ...