Researchers are getting better at growing miniature organs and embryos in test tubes or on chips. This creates new ...

For the first time, researchers revived fully functional mouse brain tissue from cryopreservation. The secret sauce: ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that gonadotrophs, cells in the pituitary gland with a key role in ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

Her family is upset that Georgia’s law that restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected doesn’t allow relatives to have a say in whether a pregnant woman is kept on life support.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have revealed insight into why embryos erase a key epigenetic mark during early development, suggesting this may have evolved to help form a placenta.

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

As the power of gene editing becomes more advanced, ideas that once seemed like science fiction are rapidly becoming a possibility. Now, a leading expert on human gene engineering has warned of what ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding maternal control and activating its own genetic program. This critical process, ...

Their study on mouse brain cells shows that the cells' axons ... those taken from adult mice and those taken from mouse embryos. The neurons were nonmyelinated (they were without the myelin ...

Maternal colonization with Bifidobacterium breve caused profound metabolic alterations in the embryonic brain. In particular ... and degradation rates in treated mouse fetuses.

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