The embryos cannot develop into humans, and are being used to study development in outer space.

A human embryo at roughly three to four weeks of development. The Tiangong experiment uses stem cell-derived embryo models at ...

China’s artificial embryos are part of an experiment to learn more about how human pregnancies could develop under ...

China has become the first nation to send human artificial embryos into orbit, aiming to uncover how space conditions like ...

A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first ...

For the first time, scientists have captured a real-time view of a human embryo implanting in a laboratory model of a uterus. Being able to witness the complex implantation process may be helpful for ...

Microgravity and higher radiation levels in orbit could disrupt cell alignment, gene expression, or organ formation.

Knoepfler is a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. Researchers are racing to engineer highly realistic human embryo models using stem cells in the lab. Some of ...