An organoid-based screening platform that allows one-gene-at-a-time knockdown across a whole tissue has been used to identify the genes that regulate closure of the neural tube in humans.

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Catholic fertility treatment methods have caught the eye of the Trump administration. Here is an inside look at the practice.

An exotic zoo in the U.K. is celebrating some really special babies. While all babies are special, the casquehead iguanas ...

By tracking the fate of individual embryonic stem cells, researchers have found that endoderm cells—early embryonic cells ...

Combining classic comparative approaches, including collecting species from the wild, and cutting-edge light-induced gene ...

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In a quiet lab at Cornell University, scientists have made a discovery that could reshape how we think about life’s earliest ...

Imagine watching an embryo form in real time, each cell dividing, moving, and finding its place. Today’s advanced microscopes can capture these frames—but turning them into accurate, usable maps of ...