Geometry shapes life: Embryo curvature acts as instruction manual for coordinated cell division

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

Donated embryo offers rare glimpse of development after implantation

What happens in the first weeks after a human embryo implants in the uterus has been a black box. Now, biologists have had a chance to study this stage of development in detail for the first time. The ...
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Chinese scientists build mini womb on a chip to study human embryo implantation

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

Model of womb lining enables Babraham Institute researchers to ‘listen in’ as embryo implants

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

Single-cell approaches and deep learning to map all stages of fruit fly embryo development

Using the fruit fly, scientists have constructed a complete and detailed single-cell map of embryo development. This research will also help scientists pursue questions like how mutations lead to ...
Gizmodo

In a First, Scientists Capture Human Embryo Implantation in Real Time

A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first ...
STAT

New definition of a human embryo proposed amid rapid scientific advances

When someone says the word embryo, what do you think of? Probably that picture you’ve seen a thousand times on a thousand different news articles: a translucent orb swelling with cytoplasm being ...