Commentary: Earth has been called the “Goldilocks planet" because it is positioned just the right distance for life to evolve ...

Puerto Rico has enacted a new law that identifies unborn babies as people, giving them the same rights granted to every other ...

The holy Qur’an is a source of eternal truth. It is the greatest miracle of this time. Unlike the miracles of earlier ...

Dr. Gil Mor discusses sex-specific placental responses and long-term immune alterations from prenatal virus exposure.

A new exploration into an ancient tablet with its roots in ancient Mesopotamia has revealed that everything we thought we ...

There is definitely no single "right" way to parent children, but according to psychology, a particular trait in parents that children can adopt can have lasting advantages that follow them into ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

Here’s what a pregnancy looks like inside a microfluidic chip. At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining of the ...

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

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as "junk" plays a crucial role in the earliest moments of life. The research, ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...