Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into collagen designed to mimic uterine tissue —a key stage in reproduction. The ...

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...

A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first ...

Scientists have gotten an unprecedented look at how the human embryo implants in a uterus. They did this by creating very primitive, womb-like environments in the lab. "This is really important work ...

A team of scientists from China has successfully created a miniature womb on a chip that mimics the complex environment of ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

A doctor claims to have cloned human embryos and implanted them in women. April 23, 2009— -- A controversial fertility doctor claims to have cloned human embryos and implanted them into four ...

cases and I.V.F. disputes, the frozen embryos vials like these will hold are increasingly caught The Embryo Question is a three-part series about the cluster of cells at the crossroads of science, ...

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 assertion that ...

Only about one out of three conceptions leads to birth. 1 Approximately a third of embryos fail to attach to the uterus, while another third is lost after the embryo implants. “Human reproduction is ...