embryo

The journey from a single fertilised egg cell through to a baby delivered crying into the arms of its mother is one of the most beautiful and complex...

A new book tells, for the first time in full, the extraordinary story of drawings of embryos initially published in 1868. The artist was accused of...

Looking at stem cells through physicists’ eyes is challenging some of our basic assumptions about the body’s master cells.

We know much about how embryos develop, but one key stage – implantation – has remained a mystery. Now, scientists from Cambridge have discovered a...

In this video, Matt Benton shows us nuclei moving inside a beetle egg as a beetle embryo forms.

In this video, we see a mouse embryo developing. Dr Erica Watson tells us that studying this process helps us better understand human pregnancy.

A new online exhibition explores the visual culture of embryology as part of a research initiative on the history of reproduction.