What do the earliest stages of a pregnancy look like? Embryonic development has been extensively studied, but most of our knowledge of the earliest stages of a growing baby come from stationary ...

Despite being an essential developmental process, the understanding of human embryonic genome activation is limited, owing to the lack of in vitro cell models and ethical concerns. To advance ...

The new platform's ethically grounded approach promises to reveal much about how human embryos form during the earliest stages of pregnancy. It's one of life's most defining moments -- that crucial ...

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 ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

They discovered that a gene called VGLL1 (vestigial like family member 1) was turned on very early during placenta formation.

Our ideas, tastes, and abilities to innovate and create shape up during different life stages. Scientists have identified ...

The human brain goes through five major stages of development in its lifetime, each bringing "distinctive age-related changes", scientists have identified. Data shows there is a "non-linear change ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

Scientists have discovered that the human brain goes through five major phases of development from infancy to old age. In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers analysed brain scans from ...