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 only when conditions are ...

The high-level conference brought together African and Asian leaders to advance healthcare capacity, women empowerment, and ...

H.E. Madam ANGELINE NDAYISHIMIYE, First Lady of the Republic of Burundi, and Ambassador of Merck Foundation "More Than a Mother" along with The First Ladies of Central Africa, Liberia, Nigeria, So ...

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

Endometrial model will revolutionise what we know about embryo development during implantation, supporting our understanding of the causes of early pregnancy loss and serious pregnancy complications.

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

Transposable elements are stretches of DNA that can move around the genome. Many of these DNA sequences originate from long ago, when viruses inserted their genetic material into our ancestors' ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and Stanford University have been able to study the implantation of human ...

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights into why miscarriages occur and how they can be prevented.