Senescence. It’s a beautiful-sounding word whose tones suggest it should be a perfume or an essential oil. But that’s not ...

Clonell launches the world’s first patient-specific embryonic stem cell therapy platform, aimed at incurable diseases with ...

The mystery of early embryonic communication is starting to be unraveled thanks to a new stem cell-based model.

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...

Seals give birth only when conditions are right. After mating, a female seal can delay implantation of the embryo in the ...

From the moment an embryo starts to take shape, two-way communication is critical for making sure tissues and organs develop correctly.

(CNN) -- A human embryo, containing about a couple hundred cells, is smaller than the period at the end of a sentence. Scientists need strong microscopes to see these precursors to life, and to take ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development - including the ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), used CRISPR to engineer cellular models of embryos that mimic what happens in the first few days after reproductive cells meet. These ...

An Aug. 11 article about stem cells misspelled the name of National Institutes of Health official Lana Skirboll. (Published 8/13/01) For all the restrictions President Bush imposed on federal funding ...