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 ...

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

Most infertility and miscarriage cases are caused by failed embryo implantation in the uterus New 3D imaging reveals embryos actively burrow into uterine tissue, showing remarkable force Lab models of ...

Some IVF cycles succeed while others fail, and understanding why this happens can be challenging. There are couples who turn to IVF hoping to build a family, yet they’ve faced repeated disappointment ...

Statements in English by Samuel Ojosnegros Martos, Principal Investigator of the Bioengineering for Reproductive Health Group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), and leader of the ...

A recent Nature study evaluates post-implantation development in humans using embryo-like models based on genetically unmodified human naïve embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Study: Complete human day 14 ...

Some newly reported clumps of cells growing in lab dishes have been hailed as the closest things to human embryos that scientists have ever made in the lab. These entities are human embryo models — ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...

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