In recent years, research to create human organs and organs from cultured stem cells is progressing, and attempts to artificially synthesize human embryos in the early stages of development are also ...

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 production ...

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The team observed the emergence of the three-dimensional embryo-like structures under a microscope in the lab. These started producing blood (seen here in red) after around two weeks of development - ...

A research team from the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and other institutions has become the first in the world to capture real-time footage of the moment a human embryo implants in ...

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to ...

Microscopy image of a day 14 human embryo that has implanted in the new endometrial model. The bright blue cells in the centre of the image are unspecialised epiblast cells that later in development ...