What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to try to ...

Illustration of an embryo in the early stages of development. (Design Cells/iStock/Getty Images) The first moments of life ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

A biotech firm wants to create “synthetic” human embryos that would be used to harvest organs in order to facilitate transplants and treat conditions such as infertility, genetic disease, and aging, ...

Questions about embryo safety often arise whenever concerns about IVF procedures come into public discussion. Experts say ...

Scientists have created mouse embryos in a dish, and it could one day help families hoping to get pregnant, according to a new study. After 10 years of research, scientists created a synthetic mouse ...

In June 2026, the Trump administration announced nearly $2 million in federal grant funding for an Embryo Adoption Awareness ...