The abortion debate – the language of life, choice and rights – severs women, and their pain, from history. I don’t want to forget my abortion and I don’t want to forget theirs ...

A new genetic screening method allows researchers to efficiently modulate individual genes across entire tissues and provides ...

Biologists have long puzzled over how organs develop into their final shapes, and the nearly transparent bodies of young sea ...

Because of their ability to simulate certain aspects of embryonic development, stem cell-based embryo models can be a ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

Men have nipples because embryos are sexually neutral for their first six weeks. Here's the developmental blueprint behind one of anatomy's most overlooked mysteries.

Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

A preprint describing genetically edited human embryos is raising concerns among scientists that the U.S. is becoming more accepting of using gene editing to enhance embryos. “The cat’s out of the bag ...

A group of scientists led by Dieter Egli has demonstrated base editing in human embryos. Base editing was shown to precisely edit embryonic DNA but also resulted in off-target edits and mosaicism.