Senescence. It’s a beautiful-sounding word whose tones suggest it should be a perfume or an essential oil. But that’s not ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to study this moment in humans because of ethical restrictions and limited access to ...

Scientists have created embryo models to help study the mysteries of early human development, the medical problems that occur before birth and why many pregnancies fail. These models are made from ...

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

Understanding how cells differentiate during early embryonic development is crucial for advancing regenerative medicine and developmental biology. Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) have been invaluable ...

Building tissues and organs is one of the most complex and important tasks that cells must accomplish during embryogenesis. Individual cells do not make these decisions; rather, building tissue is a ...

Researchers from the Physics of Life Cluster of Excellence (PoL) at the Technical University Dresden and the University of California, Santa Barbara, published a study “Mechanics of the cellular ...

Oct. 9 -- WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- European researchers say they've figured out how to coax sperm-producing testicular cells into embryonic-like stem cells. The findings are the latest in ...