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

Image of mouse embryos at the 2-cell stage visualised by light microscopy. Two blastomeres (cells) can be seen inside the zona pellucida (a “shell-like” protective outer layer) of each embryo. Credit: ...

The curved shape of a zebrafish egg causes unequal cell divisions, creating larger cells near the animal pole and smaller ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

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 ...

Described in a paper in the journal Cell, the model allows scientists to study interactions between the womb and embryo, and ...

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The mystery of early embryonic communication is starting to be unraveled thanks to a new stem cell-based model.

You are the product of metamorphosis. During the third week of your embryonic existence, fateful genetic choices were made that began to transform a tiny ball of identical stem cells into a complex ...

High-resolution 3D womb model gives insights into embryo implantation, infertility, and signals between embryo and mother, ...