Marta Shahbazi transformed the understanding of human embryo development with groundbreaking in vitro culture models.

A new study has mapped human urogenital development in its native spatial context, revealing how neighboring organs ...

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 ...

Exposure to this flavor in e-cigarettes disrupts early embryonic stem cell development, posing serious potential risks to ...

An international team of scientists led from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet has for the first time mapped all the genes that are activated in the first few days of a fertilized human egg. The study, ...

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 ...

The little clump of cells looked almost like a human embryo. Created from stem cells, without eggs, sperm, or a womb, the embryo model had a yolk sac and a proto-placenta, resembling a state that real ...

A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first ...

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 - ...