A new study reveals that age-related autophagy decline blocks embryo development by triggering a lipid-burning crisis.

Protein modifications are key to cell survival because they ensure they do what they are supposed to do in a healthy system. One vital modification involves adding sugar molecules to proteins, a ...

The second wave directs glucose through glycolysis, providing energy and metabolites necessary for mesodermal cell migration and lateral expansion. The team mapped the spatial and temporal patterns of ...

An international team of experts in embryology and bioethics has published the first white paper on the use of embryonic models based on stem cells in the field of reproductive biology. The document, ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding maternal control and activating its own genetic program. This critical process, ...

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 Shenzhou-22 successfully made it back from China's space station on May 29. The cultured embryo material was among science samples brought back as part of a project undertaken by a research team ...