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 ...

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

The onset of embryo-specific gene transcription, also known as embryonic genome activation (EGA), is a crucial step in the developmental journey of an organism. Although EGA has been studied to some ...

Researchers at the Babraham Institute have ‘listened in’ to the communication between the embryo and the womb lining at the ...

Then researchers placed blastoids and embryos donated after infertility treatments inside the little device and watched it under a microscope. A human blastoid is a stem-cell-made copy of an early ...

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Washington Embryonic development, also known as embryogenesis, is a cornerstone in understanding the origins of life ...

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights ...