This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

Investment fund Integral Capital Group has acquired a majority stake in the fertility and gynecology clinic Embryos, which specializes in assisted reproductive technology. The stake was purchased ...

However, there are two theories about the possible causes of conjoined twins. Conjoined twins are always identical twins. When identical twins form in utero, one fertilized egg, called an embryo, ...

The woman, surnamed Hou, was discharged from hospital at the end of November, with the remaining two embryos developing healthily, doctors said. But on Jan 6, during a prenatal check-up ...

Scientists from a collaboration of Australian research institutions have proposed that editing multiple genetic variants in human embryos could significantly lower the likelihood of developing ...

By describing a fetus as a person from conception, Trump has legitimized fetal personhood. Pro-abortion activists have long warned that fetal personhood, an ideology that calls for providing equal ...

Center for Basic Medical Research, Medical School of Nantong University, Nantong 226001, P. R. China Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical School of Nantong University, Nantong 226001, P. R.

Credit: Julien Marcetteau for the Barriga Lab/PoL How cells utilize electric fields to guide their migration during embryonic development. As an embryo develops, cells constantly communicate to ...

Once dismissed as the 'dark side' of the genome, researchers have now revealed their crucial role in early embryo development. Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient ...