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

A team of more than 200 researchers around the world, involving multiple health and scientific institutions, led by the University of Oxford, has published the first digital atlas showing the dynamics ...

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

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

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

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thyroid disorders during pregnancy can affect mother and baby. Know risks, symptoms, autoimmune causes, and ...