Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country has given the first-ever authorizations to manufacture and sell medical products based on the technology.

Speaking at a recent meeting of the British Pharmacological Society in Brighton, UK, Christine Mummery described how using embryonic stem cells to create human heart cells could b ...

BEIJING -- After years of dedicated research, a team of Chinese scientists has unveiled critical mechanisms governing early human embryonic development, offering novel theories and potential ...

In mammals, the fusion of sperm and oocyte gives rise to a totipotent zygote, which undergoes a series of cleavage divisions and differentiation events. During this process, the embryo transitions ...

In July 1932, young pathology resident Elizabeth M. Ramsey was performing a routine autopsy with a colleague at New Haven Hospital when she made an extraordinary discovery: an apparently normal human ...

Growth arrest specific gene 1 (Gas1) has long been regarded as a cell cycle inhibitor of the G(0) to S phase transition. How GAS1, a GPI-anchored plasma membrane protein, directs intracellular changes ...

new video loaded: George Saunders on the Value of Human Contact When the author George Saunders was awarded a medal by the National Book Foundation last year, he was introduced as “the ultimate ...

Researchers created lab-grown models of the human endometrium that allow embryos and blastoids to implant, enabling direct observation of the earliest stages of pregnancy for the first time. The ...

Scientists have gotten an unprecedented look at how the human embryo implants in a uterus. They did this by creating very primitive, womb-like environments in the lab. "This is really important work ...

Microscopy image of a day 14 human embryo that has implanted in the new artificial womb. (Matteo Molè at the Babraham Institute.) Scientists have gotten an unprecedented look at how the human embryo ...