Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...
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Ancient DNA exposes virus that hacked its way into human genes
Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that quietly slipped into our chromosomes and never left. By tracing this viral ...
You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.
Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into collagen designed to mimic uterine tissue —a key stage in reproduction. The ...
Scientists have developed a new human-based endometrial model to study embryonic implantation in the early stages of ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A microscope image of a 9-day-old human embryo. The scale bar corresponds to 100 µm. | Credit: ...
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Humans are born with tails—but lose them before birth—and scientists still don’t know why we have them at all
Early in pregnancy, something surprising happens. Every human embryo develops a tail. It is not symbolic or imagined. A real ...
A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first ...
A human embryo embeds itself into a fake uterus created by researchers. Screenshot from an Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia video Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an ...
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