On the outside, you’ll watch your little one grow from newborn to older infant to toddler, preschooler, kindergartener, and so on. It might feel like it goes by in the blink of an eye. But a little ...

Tennessee could soon become the latest state to require public school students to watch a three-minute computer-generated video on fetal development created by an anti-abortion group. The state Senate ...

Significant differences in the gene activity of the fetal intestine, brain and placenta were identified, depending on the microbes in the mother's body and the compounds produced by them. The findings ...

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

Video of an animated fetus could soon work its way into sex education classes in public schools across several U.S. states., and the idea has pro-choice activists and groups concerned. The video, ...

The liquid world of fetal development provides a rich source of nutrition and protection tailored to meet the needs of the ...

North Dakota schools would be required to show students high-quality video of how a human fetus develops in each week of pregnancy under a bill Senate lawmakers approved during a vote Wednesday. The ...

Embryonic morphological development is delayed in live pregnancies ending in miscarriage, according to a prospective cohort study from the Netherlands. Among over 600 singleton pregnancies, those ...

Researchers have used stem cells to develop new human embryolike structures that model the earliest stages of fetal development so realistically that they even secrete hormones that can turn a lab ...

When does your baby develop a heartbeat? A baby's heartbeat (at this point a fluttering of cells) starts as early as to 4 weeks after conception or 6 weeks after the first day of the last menstrual ...