For many years, researchers believed that the DNA inside a newly fertilized egg began as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a loose ...

Using art as an entry point can help make the science of human embryology more accessible. “Art is a magnet for engagement ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilized egg as a structural "blank slate"—a disordered tangle of DNA ...

Leonard Zon, professor of stem cell and regenerative biology and Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, has been awarded the 2026 March of Dimes Richard B. Johnston Jr., MD Prize ...

Pasca Lab specializes in growing three-dimensional organoid models from reprogrammed stem cells, which capture molecular changes during fetal brain-like development. Because the human brain cannot be ...

A computational biology company that started in space tech is looking to change how biopharma finds disease targets by ...

A research team led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London and University College London (UCL) has found new clues ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic ...

Some research suggests that avoiding environmental exposures, especially pre-conception, may help. Influencers branded the ...

The final piece of this evolution comes from closing the loop between AI scientists and the physical laboratory. In 2026, AI systems will connect seamlessly with robotic laboratories, creating true ...