A far-reaching education bill that requires students to learn about “human embryological and fetal development,” mandates ...

The prohibition halts support for projects both inside and outside the N.I.H. President Biden had restored funding after an ...

Scientists denounced the move, arguing that fetal tissue is crucial for understanding human development and diseases.

The US biomedical funding agency also hints at future restrictions on research involving human embryonic stem cells.

The findings shed new light on human reproduction and suggest pathways for developing treatments to lower the risk of ...

In a recent review article published in the journal Antioxidants, researchers explored how environmental factors impact the brain development of fetuses and neonates, emphasizing inflammation and ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reinstated a ban on the research use of human fetal tissue (HFT) obtained from abortions, a prohibition originally put in place during President Trump’s ...

Diagnostic imaging and genetic screens help clinicians catch congenital fetal diseases in utero, but models for studying organ development and disease progression are limited. Over the last decade, ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Copenhagen analyzed over 139,000 embryos and identified variants in key meiosis genes, such as SMC1B, that influence chromosomal ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioral traits that have made human societies able to thrive ...

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. “They are not identical,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a ...