For the first time, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have successfully developed human stem cell models that include ...

The first few days of a human embryo’s development, known as pre-implantation, are important. It’s when the first cells are formed, and these decide if the embryo can survive, how it will ...

For most of recorded history, people have fundamentally disagreed about the moral status of the human embryo. In early times this was because people knew very little about what actually went on in ...

After three long essays in the New York Times’s “Embryo Question,” the series ends with a stunning confession of complete indecision about what the human embryo is — aside from the ...

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development. CRCHUM researcher ...