Researchers from Japan and France have successfully reconstituted the development of mouse egg cells, known as oocytes, from ...

A team at Kobe University has created a game-changing resource for autism research: 63 mouse embryonic stem cell lines, each carrying a genetic mutation strongly associated with the disorder. By ...

The isolation of embryonic stem cells in 1998 was a fundamental breakthrough for biology. But despite high hopes new medical treatments based on those stem cells haven't materialized.

Twenty years after the debates of the George W. Bush era, there appears to be a serious threat that all government human embryonic stem cell research funding may end for years.

In humans, embryonic cell compaction is a crucial step in the normal development of an embryo. Four days after fertilisation, cells move closer together to give the embryo its initial shape.