Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST; Saudi Arabia) have announced the development of a ...

With each week of pregnancy, your baby-to-be is developing in leaps and bounds. In the early stages, they are called a zygote. They then progress to an embryo, fetus, and finally, baby. You might ...

The birth of a fetus is a long and complex process that continues from pregnancy to the birth of the child. There are many ...

But mouse embryos also implant into the womb before these early embryonic stages, so they have the same issues with accessibility as human embryos when it comes to live imaging.

By genetically testing nearly 1,000 embryos, scientists have provided the most-detailed analysis of embryo fate following human in vitro fertilization. The unique combination of data from arrested ...

IVF attrition is the rate at which your reproductive material declines or tapers down once it has been retrieved and begun to ...

Researchers are now permitted to grow human embryos in the lab for longer than 14 days. ... and can now mimic portions of the earliest embryonic stages in mouse and human — implantation 8, ...

Performing any experiments on a developing embryo is extremely difficult and effectively impossible at some stages. This week, however, progress has been made with both human and mouse embryos.

Simultaneously, the embryo starts changing its shape for the first time, thereby entering a phase called morphogenesis. In a new study, the researchers looked deeper into what is happening at the ...