Emerging findings suggest that viral DNA may play an important part in how embryos form, right after fertilization.

There are transposable elements in the human genome that are active in the earliest stages of human embryo development, when there is significant molecular flexibility and plasticity. But the ...

Discover the fascinating world of extra nipples and supernumerary breasts, a natural variation found in humans and other ...

President Donald Trump's Feb. 18 executive order on in vitro fertilization is the president's first step toward fulfilling a campaign trail promise to expand IVF – an action the Catholic Church and ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have created the first comprehensive protein-level atlas of brain development, ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

Researchers from the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed the intrinsic relationship ...

A bill that would that would require schools show an ultrasound as well as a video about fetal development to students in 4th through 12th grades has passed the Iowa Senate by a 31-13 vote. Senator ...

Extraembryonic trophoblast lineages constitute the placenta, and are essential for individual development. In human early embryo development, these cells can be generated from totipotent blastomeres.