A rare way cells survive extreme stress has just been decoded, with implications reaching far beyond the animal kingdom.

Seals give birth only when conditions are right. After mating, a female seal can delay implantation of the embryo in the ...

The process behind embryonic diapause could explain how cancer cells can survive long periods of metabolic stress.

The dome shaped colonies representing diapause-like mouse embryonic stem cells. (Credit: Tarakhovsky lab) Seals give birth ...

A new video by pro-life organization Live Action uses technology to bring home the reality of life in the womb. "Meet Baby Oliver" depicts the earliest stages of human development with what the ...

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining ...

Oxygen tank strapped to his back, Michael del Rosario moves his fins delicately as he glides along an underwater nursery just ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can't see, such as what foods different people are able to digest. When ...

When sperm meets egg, the start of life is not quiet. Under a special microscope, researchers have watched a tiny light show at fertilization. They see a microscopic flash at fertilization, a burst of ...

While massive global brands like Coca-Cola and McDonald's resort to AI for their Christmas ads, a French supermarket chain has just demonstrated the power and value of human-made animation. Some ...

Eve was one of dozens of Thai women who traveled 4,000 miles — only to be trapped by the dark side of the global fertility ...