Scientists have long observed that embryos of different species within a phylum look quite distinct at early and late ...

Speaking at a recent meeting of the British Pharmacological Society in Brighton, UK, Christine Mummery described how using embryonic stem cells to create human heart cells could b ...

Researchers developed a method that visualizes gene activity across an entire embryo with high spatial detail. The resulting ...

With biotech companies inching up on clinical trials for human embryonic stem cell-based therapies, the US Food and Drug Administration held a meeting yesterday to discuss scientific issues in ...

A single-cell RNA atlas maps sea urchin development, revealing rare neuronal lineages and gene activity across stages, and ...

Biobots, whose growing line of variants started with xenobots, are fascinating tiny self-powered living robots built ...

Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments. However, ...