Oxytocin, the "love hormone," may pause pregnancy by inducing embryonic diapause, delaying implantation when resources are ...

Concerns have grown after reports of legal visa and green card holders being detained at Boston Logan Airport.

Anything a woman does that could potentially injure a fetus, whether that be accidental or intentional, could be deemed as ...

Miracles can happen. The president of the U.S. Oil & Gas Association on Monday said he is prepared to purchase a Tesla, the popular electric vehicle, to show "solidarity with the innovators and ...

Scientists have found a way to study early embryonic development without real embryos. Using CRISPR, they programmed stem cells to self-organize into structures mimicking early embryos. The cells show ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz were able to engineer cellular models of embryos without ever experimenting with any actual embryos, allowing them to mimic the first few days after two sexually ...

For some animals, the entire process of cellular multiplication, generation of specialized cells, and their organization into an ordered multicellular embryo takes place in the protective ...

including mice and bats. It might even occur in humans — it's a difficult phenomenon to track in most human pregnancies, but a few scattered reports from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics suggest ...

investigated oxytocin’s role because the hormone is already known to affect nursing and early embryo development. Diapause is well-documented in over 130 species of mammals, including marsupials like ...

Brazil's bats are harboring a vast and diverse pool of coronaviruses, a new study finds, including a newly identified strain that may pose a danger to human health in the years to come. Scientists are ...

Diapause, in general, is a bit of a mystery. The phenomenon naturally occurs in marsupials, such as kangaroos and possums, and in at least 130 species of mammals, including mice and bats. It might ...