LONDON (Reuters) - The Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill receives its second reading in the House of Commons on Monday. Here are some key facts about the bill: -- The bill updates laws on ...

Fertility care has evolved significantly over the last few decades and is now offering structured solutions to indivi ...

A new study takes a tour of the history of research into human embryology and development to show the "cycles of attention" that led to major scientific breakthroughs. Analyzing the past sheds light ...

Credit: The American Journal of Human Genetics (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.04.017 Each cell contains a set of instructions in its DNA that determines which genes are expressed and which are ...

Human bodies have to be built from a single egg cell that's fertilized by a sperm cell. Many rounds of cell division occur as the body is developing, and it seems that there are plenty of chances for ...

For the first time, scientists have used human cells to make structures that mimic the earliest stages of development, which they say will pave the way for more research without running afoul of ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...

Researchers are now permitted to grow human embryos in the lab for longer than 14 days. Here’s what they could learn. It was day 13 in a set of experiments in Ali Brivanlou’s laboratory and he had an ...