Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

An international team of bioethicists and scientists, led by a researcher at Case Western Reserve University, contends it may be justified to go beyond the standing 14-day limit that restricts how ...

Bioethicists criticized Thursday the relaxation of a 14-day limit on human embryo experimentation. In a June 3 statement, the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, England, lamented the decision by the ...

The dialogue findings provide an initial snapshot of public opinion on human embryo research, and that of stem cell embryo models, and aim to inform future public consultation, policy development and ...

As technology for manipulating embryonic life accelerates, researchers want to get rid of their biggest stop sign. In 2016, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz grew human embryos in a lab dish for longer than ...

It's time to extend the legal limit on human embryo research from 14 to 28 days, because technology and knowledge have moved on during the 40 years since it was introduced, urges a leading ethicist in ...

‘To experiment on human embryos that are up to 14 days old — extremely vulnerable human lives — is already a grave injustice and a form of exploitation,’ says U.K. scientist. The International Society ...