Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.

Changing just a single base in a specific DNA region of a female mouse embryo led to the development of male reproductive organs. A research team led by Nitzan Gonen at Bar-Ilan University in Israel h ...

A single DNA letter, inserted into a stretch of the genome that doesn’t code for any protein, was enough to turn genetically ...

It’s challenging to sustain a pregnancy when food is short, or conditions are otherwise tough. That’s why many mammalian embryos can postpone their growth to get through periods of environmental ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), used CRISPR to engineer cellular models of embryos that mimic what happens in the first few days after reproductive cells meet. These ...

Magdalena (Magda) Zernicka-Goetz, today a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology, recalled being an artistic child who enjoyed ...

A new platform for studying mtDNA mutations implicated in human disease could help accelerate treatments for mitochondrial ...

Another hurdle has emerged that must be overcome for long-term space habitation and the colonization of Mars. On the 26th (local time), a team led by Professor Nicole McPherson from the University of ...