A new study found proteins in umbilical cord blood that may help explain why some low-birth-weight babies face higher risks of chronic diseases later in life.

Researchers have long sought to discover why babies who weigh less than expected at birth, a condition known as small for ...

Moderate exposure to cold and heat during early pregnancy may affect fetal development as early as the first trimester, ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

Base editing in human embryos reveals that NANOG is the one gene required to form every body tissue. Cambridge’s landmark ...

Professional python hunter Amy Siewe recently posted a video on her Facebook page showing her cutting open a snake's egg to ...

Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

A human embryo ‘base edited’ so that it can’t produce a key protein (right), fails to form the mass of cells that gives rise ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique ...

South Dakota’s public school districts will get a choice on which prenatal human growth and development video they must show ...

Men have nipples because embryos are sexually neutral for their first six weeks. Here's the developmental blueprint behind ...