Most animals, including humans, have bilateral symmetry, which means our bodies are pretty symmetrical. At least on the outside. On the inside, things are different.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have uncovered a key mechanism in jellyfish embryos that provides new insights into how the body plan of these animals develops along a central axis from their "head" to "tail." ...

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

Researchers Australia said that they have for the first time successfully produced the first kangaroo embryos through IVF. It ...

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

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

Australia-based scientists said Thursday they had produced the world's first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilization and hailed it as a key step towards saving endangered marsupials.