As nearly one in six couples experience fertility issues, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is an increasingly common form of ...

Building an atlas of all the cell types that make up the body typically requires multinational collaborations and massive budgets. But a technique that can analyse the genetic activity of hundreds of ...

Scientists have created a 6-legged mouse embryo with an extra pair of hindlimbs at the expense of their external genitalia. But far from creating a monster, this rudimentary rodent provides important ...

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It’s challenging to sustain a pregnancy when food is short, or conditions are otherwise tough. That’s why many mammalian embryos can postpone their growth to get through periods of environmental ...

These embryos remained viable and could start developing again when transplanted into a well-fed mother. To work out which nutrients were important to induce diapause, the researchers grew early-stage ...

A new study examining mouse embryos when they are composed of just two cells, right after undergoing their very first ...