Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...

North Dakota and Tennessee have passed similar laws in recent years with support from the anti-abortion group that makes the “Baby Olivia” video.

From the moment of conception, all cells and eventually all individuals, must pass critical thresholds. Researchers in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal, Child and Adolescent ...

UCSC researchers used CRISPR to engineer embryoids that mimic early development stages ... that lead reproduction to fail in ...

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. Shelby is an Assistant Editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD ...