Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with in vitro culture, blastocyst formation from Invocell intravaginal culture performs slightly better ...

The first steps of human development—those that occur within the first few weeks of pregnancy—remain mysterious in many ways. Within a week of fertilization, human embryos form a blastocyst, which ...

Newly created “blastoids” could give scientists a faster and simpler way to research embryonic development than using fertilized human eggs. Made of human stem cells, these blastoids are the most ...

Innovative research, presented today at the ESHRE 40 th Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, has introduced a novel 3D imaging model designed to identify features of blastocysts – the early stage of ...

At some point in our evolution, we lost the ability to activate a reproductive mechanism called embryonic diapause, which slows development, usually during the blastocyst stage. And so, unlike mammals ...

A recent study in Nature Cell Biology identified guinea pigs as promising small animals to model preimplantation development, a critical step in human embryogenesis. Stem cells provide opportunities ...