With a shiny snout and pink, veiny face, an image shared on X on Oct. 15, 2023, claimed to show a dog embryo after seven days of gestation. At the time of this publication, the post had received more ...

A reverse-image search of the photo using Google Lens (archived here) revealed that the image has been in circulation since at least 2019. Despite the absolutely boopable snoot, Snopes determined this ...

The noses of many mammals, such as dogs, ferrets and cows, feature grooves forming a multitude of polygons. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has analyzed in detail how these patterns form ...

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

What do the earliest stages of a pregnancy look like? Embryonic development has been extensively studied, but most of our knowledge of the earliest stages of a growing baby come from stationary ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development. CRCHUM researcher Sophie ...

The research team discovered that glassware used to manipulate and culture fertilized eggs in the fields of assisted reproductive technology (ART), livestock farming, and basic research contains toxic ...

Metabolism does more than fuel embryos—it sets their developmental rhythm. EMBL researchers found that a sugar molecule, FBP, controls the pace of spine formation, suggesting metabolism may act as a ...