Researchers at Dresden University of Technology reveal that early zebrafish embryos divide without a closed actin ring.

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

The debate over what Florida students learn about fetal development is back on the docket for another round of potentially ...

Researchers at the Babraham Institute have ‘listened in’ to the communication between the embryo and the womb lining at the ...

High-resolution 3D womb model gives insights into embryo implantation, infertility, and signals between embryo and mother, ...

Researchers have used naïve pluripotent stem cells to create an embryo model that looks and acts like a natural human embryo. They say it’s an ethical way of gaining a better understanding of ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...