At just two-and-a-half hours old, a teensy fruit-fly embryo is bustling with activity, and now researchers have captured this development in a 3D video showing a young embryo grow into a 20-hour-old ...

For the first time, scientists have recorded a human embryo implanting into a womb in real time, a feat the researchers hope will lead to new ways to treat infertility and prevent miscarriages. "Being ...

Electrified blue and red wires squirm their way across the screen, sparks of bright light sporadically exploding along their lengths. This incredible time-lapse video isn't of lightning in the sky or ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

As you age, your fertility slowly declines. By freezing eggs or embryos when you’re young (usually under the age of 40), you can preserve your eggs’ health and, through in vitro fertilization (IVF), ...

A team of biologists and mathematicians studied hours of video to learn how insects take shape in the egg. The secret is geometry. Micrographs of various portions of cricket embryos during development ...

In July, Clare Kilcullen gave birth to her daughter, Marlowe, thanks to a frozen embryo donated by a couple from Canada. As Jo Ling Kent reports, it's part of a growing movement to maintain a ...

Emma Gibson was conceived on Oct. 14, 1992. However, rather than being born nine months after conception, she was frozen as an embryo. More than 24 years later, she was thawed and, following IVF, was ...