Federal regulators are discussing artificial wombs, a crucial step for doctor-researchers who want to pursue the first clinical trials for humans. FDA advisers are meeting this week on artificial womb ...

Human life begins with a single egg cell that grows into a human being with trillions of cells. To ensure that the highly complex development of tissues and organs is as protected as possible, the ...

Having explored how the heart is formed in utero, a University of Houston pharmacology researcher is reporting how cells and molecules act during that early formation and what might cause the heart ...

The digestive system begins to form by week five of pregnancy. Fetuses don't eat in the womb, but they do process nutrients ...