Researchers at the Center for Embryology and Healthy Development (CRESCO) aim to find out why so many early embryos fail in ...

“Reduced telomere length can be caused by embryonic cellular damage,” said study co-lead Dr. Yasmyn Winstanley. The ...

Researchers at the Centre for Embryology and Healthy Development (CRESCO) aim to find out why so many early embryos fail in ...

When you seek the help of a fertility specialist to conceive, your first step is to undergo diagnostic tests to understand your likelihood of success. This is followed by a comprehensive ...

Scientists at UCSC used CRISPR technology to create embryo-like structures, or embryoids, from stem cells. These programmable ...

Humans do not have tails, but do we have “what it takes” for a tail? Hens don’t have teeth, but they have the genes for it. With atavism, it is as if our genomes serve as archives of our ...

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. Shelby is an Assistant Editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD ...

Shelby is an Assistant Editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD from West Virginia University in immunology and microbiology and completed an AAAS Mass Media fellowship. View Full Profile. Learn ...