At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining ...

Embryos now cross borders with increasing regularity, carried quietly by couriers and safeguarded by systems designed to leave little to chance.

High-resolution 3D womb model gives insights into embryo implantation, infertility, and signals between embryo and mother, ...

A 3D uterus embryo implantation simulation chip developed by a Chinese research team has, for the first time, fully ...

Monozygotic twinning itself after elective single embryo transfer is uncommon, occurring in no more than roughly 3% of cases.

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

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 ...