The team used human stem cells to create embryo-like structures dubbed “hematoids” that mirror some features of early human ...

A team of scientists has mapped the regions surrounding stem cells in planarians—small flatworms that are famous for being ...

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...

Graham Johnson, a computational biologist and scientific illustrator at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, recalls fantasizing at a lunch table, more than 15 years ago, about a computer model of a ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, ...

Schmidtea mediterranea, a freshwater flatworm (or planarian), has adult pluripotent stem cells spread all throughout its ...

More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might someday be used in IVF to help infertile people and male couples.

Scientists have developed functional eggs from ordinary human skin cells, a proof of concept that could open up new ways to treat infertility.

The research could open up avenues for fertility treatments after additional refinement and trials, but it also raises ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge say they have produced human blood cells in the laboratory by using embryo-like ...

They disable our defenses and hijack the cellular machinery in order to multiply successfully. For example, the herpes ...

Cambridge scientists create human blood cells in lab via embryo-like “hematoids,” aiding blood disorder research and stem ...