The US biomedical funding agency also hints at future restrictions on research involving human embryonic stem cells.

A team of more than 200 researchers around the world, involving multiple health and scientific institutions, led by the University of Oxford, has published the first digital atlas showing the dynamics ...

The findings shed new light on human reproduction and suggest pathways for developing treatments to lower the risk of ...

In a recent review article published in the journal Antioxidants, researchers explored how environmental factors impact the brain development of fetuses and neonates, emphasizing inflammation and ...

Funding for fetal tissue research had already been declining, according to NIH data. In the 2024 fiscal year, the agency spent $53 million on 77 projects that used fetal tissue. That was down from ...

The prohibition halts support for projects both inside and outside the N.I.H. President Biden had restored funding after an ...

About 15% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and many other conceptions do not survive past the very early stages of ...

Diagnostic imaging and genetic screens help clinicians catch congenital fetal diseases in utero, but models for studying organ development and disease progression are limited. Over the last decade, ...

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. “They are not identical,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a ...

Scientists denounced the move, arguing that fetal tissue is crucial for understanding human development and diseases.