Researchers have managed to reconstruct the early stage of mammalian development using embryonic stem cells, showing that a critical mass of cells -- not too few, but not too many -- is needed for the ...

Research improves upon a popular experimental model of mammal development and in doing so, reveals more of the inner workings of a critical period during the formation of an embryo. Research from Ph.D ...

At this stage, known as gastrulation, a flat and featureless sheet of cells folds into a living blueprint for the body, a ...

Ann Arbor-based Incept BioSystems Inc., a privately held biomedical device company using patented, microfluidic technology developed at the University of Michigan, announced completion of the first ...

Embryos in pregnancies that end in miscarriage take longer to develop in the womb than those in pregnancies that result in live births, according to new research published today (Monday) in Human ...

Sometimes, in science, you just have to digitally reconstruct the genitals of a thinly sliced, hundred-year-old embryo from an obscure New Zealand reptile, because you really want to know if your ...