An international team of experts in embryology and bioethics has published the first white paper on the use of embryonic ...

COMMENTARY: Why is this latest development generally being hailed as a scientific milestone rather than a giant ethical ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has announced an amazing and potentially controversial new project to test the development of "artificial human embryos" in space. What is an artificial human embryo?

BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have captured the first high-resolution footage of human embryos during their first five days of development, leading to a major discovery as to why so ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long ...

New York researchers took healthy human embryos and successfully modified their genetic code by focusing on a single letter.

A new study reveals that age-related autophagy decline blocks embryo development by triggering a lipid-burning crisis.

Two new breakthroughs show how hard it is to know when the world has changed.

Destructive Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research—The term “destructive human embryonic stem cell research” means any research that involves the disaggregation of any human embryo for the purpose of ...