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

Stem-cell models provide evidence that viral DNA sequences that entered the human genome in the past were repurposed to aid early stages of embryonic development. Sherif Khodeer is in the Department ...

Recently, researchers have been working on using 3D embryo structures called “hematoids,” which are similar to embryos. These structures, however, cannot develop into a fetus due to a lack of various ...

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as "junk" plays a crucial role in the earliest moments of life. The research, ...