As space tourism gets cheaper and missions keep getting longer, scientists are now raising a question that used to be limited ...

Hindering studies involving fetal tissue will impede the development of the alternatives intended to replace it, while ...

Human fetal tissue research has helped in the development of some vaccines.

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

Researchers mapped early brain growth from mid-pregnancy to the first month after birth and found signs that sex-linked differences emerge surprisingly early.

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD By seamlessly tracking brain growth from the womb into early life, researchers uncover when key brain regions surge and how subtle sex differences emerge before birth. Study: ...

Scientists have developed a new human-based endometrial model to study embryonic implantation in the early stages of ...

The National Institutes of Health announced that it will end its funding of research that uses human fetal tissue.

Former Notre Dame theology professor resigns from Asian studies institute over director appointment, citing conflict with ...

Human heart development is largely influenced by neural crest cells, which carefully regulate a key growth signal.

Pregnancy is, biologically speaking, a state of controlled upheaval. The immune system recalibrates. Blood volume surges. And sometimes, inflammation ...