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 ...

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

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

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

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

Unlike earlier methods using CRISPR alone, this method works without introducing chromosomal abnormalities into the embryo or ...

Destructive Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research—The term “destructive human embryonic stem cell research” means any research that involves the disaggregation of any human embryo for the purpose of ...

The team observed the emergence of the three-dimensional embryo-like structures under a microscope in the lab. These started producing blood (seen here in red) after around two weeks of development - ...

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

Nobody has ever been born in space. More than 600 people have traveled beyond Earth’s atmosphere since Yuri Gagarin first did ...