The curved shape of a zebrafish egg causes unequal cell divisions, creating larger cells near the animal pole and smaller ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Seals give birth only when conditions are right. After mating, a female seal can delay implantation of the embryo in the ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring ...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies. His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, ...

He Jiankui, who went to prison for three years for making the world’s first gene-edited babies, talked to MIT Technology Review about his new research plans. This story first appeared in China Report, ...

Embryos and the uterus exchange molecular signals within the first hour, shaping whether implantation succeeds or fails.

Mutations in the gene triggered embryoless seeds in 60%–100% of plants across multiple rice cultivars. Expression analysis revealed OsBZR4 is active specifically at the interface between the scutellum ...