Azim Surani (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) discusses gene editing of the human germline.
The journey from a single fertilised egg cell through to a baby delivered crying into the arms of its mother is one of the most beautiful and complex...
A new book tells, for the first time in full, the extraordinary story of drawings of embryos initially published in 1868. The artist was accused of...
Researchers have captured the first 3D video of a living algal embryo turning itself inside out, from a sphere to a mushroom shape and back again...
Looking at stem cells through physicists’ eyes is challenging some of our basic assumptions about the body’s master cells.
We know much about how embryos develop, but one key stage – implantation – has remained a mystery. Now, scientists from Cambridge have discovered a...
