A research team led by Associate Professor Hirofumi Nishizono and graduate student Masaki Kato from the Research Support ...

As the climate changes, scientists are concerned about how well plants and animals will adapt to rapid warming. A new ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.

Genetic testing on embryos is more sophisticated and accessible than ever—and it’s now being sold as a way to let parents ...

The work appears in Cell. "Understanding embryo implantation and embryo development just after implantation has significant clinical relevance as these stages are particularly prone to failure," said ...

Embryonic development is a finely orchestrated process in which a single cell differentiates into the myriad specialised tissues that comprise a fully formed organism. Central to this process are ...

Research led by the SickKids Research Institute in Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania, has found that immune-related ...

Research shows how the curved shape of a zebrafish egg sets cell division timing, gene activation, and early cell fate ...

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as "junk" plays a crucial role in the earliest moments of life. The research, ...

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, conservation authorities and an NGO said Friday. Flat-headed cats are among ...

Here’s what a pregnancy looks like inside a microfluidic chip. At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining of the ...