BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have captured the first high-resolution footage of human embryos during their first five days of development, leading to a major discovery as to why so ...

Fertility specialists, biotech companies and ethicists are divided over whether progress in early gene editing would wipe out ...

New York researchers took healthy human embryos and successfully modified their genetic code by focusing on a single letter.

COMMENTARY: Why is this latest development generally being hailed as a scientific milestone rather than a giant ethical ...

An international team of experts in embryology and bioethics has published the first white paper on the use of embryonic ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long ...

A new study reveals that age-related autophagy decline blocks embryo development by triggering a lipid-burning crisis.

Two new breakthroughs show how hard it is to know when the world has changed.

The work proves that embryo editing is far from a clinical reality. But the experiment has sparked controversy nonetheless ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has announced an amazing and potentially controversial new project to test the development of ...

A new gene-editing breakthrough in human embryos raises the possibility of selecting certain traits in future babies while ...

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...