The Iowa Senate approved a bill to require the state’s public schools to show high quality animations of fetal development in ...

Millions of babies have been born through in vitro fertilisation in Nigeria and all over the world. IVF has enabled millions ...

Senate Bill 1046 proposes fetal development classroom instruction for students in grades 5-12, sparking conversation over ...

Stress during pregnancy may cause changes in placental genes linked to cortisol regulation. These changes could impact fetal ...

The development of an animal embryo, from a small cluster of cells to a multicellular organism, might also have been optimized and fine-tuned to an almost perfect system. However, a precise ...

Rep. Mary Bentley's bill to require Arkansas public schools to show students an animated video of a fetus stalled in ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have created the first comprehensive protein-level atlas of brain development, ...

The human body is a key subject of research by scientists worldwide. A biomedical engineering research team led by Professor ...

This internal left-right asymmetry is believed to begin at the very early stage of development -- when a tiny embryo is divided into two parts during a process called gastrulation. This process ...

Emerging findings suggest that viral DNA may play an important part in how embryos form, right after fertilization.

The findings have been reported in Cell. There are transposable elements in the human genome that are active in the earliest stages of human embryo development, when there is significant molecular ...