Before an embryo can use its own genes, it relies on materials that have been packed into the egg. This is a precarious phase. In mammals, the fertilized egg divides several times before activating ...

The development itself is essentially an artificial eggshell, one that allows almost the entire developmental process to ...

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Stephanie Kuku had a career she loved: an NHS surgeon specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. But as she approached her 38th birthday, she faced a dilemma. “I was single. I wanted more – a ...

In the summer of 2023, a remotely operated vehicle named Deep Discoverer was crawling along the Pacific seafloor off Alaska when its cameras landed on something nobody could explain: a smooth, golden ...

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What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers have succeeded in developing a microscope ...

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In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley campus, two bespoke microscopes - each a Swiss Army knife for high-resolution imaging - operate around the clock gathering data ...

Today's announcement by Texas-based de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences about a successful hatching of chicks from an artificial egg would represent a major innovation, if the claims can be ...