image: One of the significant challenges in sex reversal research is the lack of an in vitro system to model and study variants found in Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) individuals. A study ...

A new model of tiny human ovary organoids, or ovaroids, has been developed from stem cells, according to research presented at the first Joint Congress between the European Society of Paediatric ...

Scientists have created synthetic blobs that resemble a 14-day-old human embryo for the first time, meaning they can study embryo development beyond a particularly tricky period of pregnancy.

The long and surprisingly dangerous journey undertaken by primordial germ cells - which ultimately become sperm or eggs - has ...