Tennessee school children could be required to view a three-minute ultrasound or computer animation of a developing fetus as part of state-required family life curriculum under a new Republican-backed ...

The "Baby Olivia" video produced by Live Action has been used in Fargo Public Schools after state lawmakers mandated a fetal development video be shown. Henry McMullen-Wendt, 15, addresses the Fargo ...

State Rep. Melanie Miller, R–Ashland, introduced House Bill 485, also known as the Enact Baby Olivia Act on Sept. 30, 2025. (Photo by Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal). A Republican lawmaker ...

SB 442 is meant to increase transparency around human sexuality instruction in schools. House lawmakers broadened a measure meant to increase transparency about human sexuality instruction in schools.

When does human life begin? Science is crystal clear: Human life begins at the moment of fertilization. For centuries, the development of human life within the womb was instinctively understood but ...

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. “They are not identical,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a ...

A team of scientists have grown a miniature human heart model. They hope the organoid will help them better understand fetal heart development and defects like congenital heart disease. The Michigan ...

Diagnostic imaging and genetic screens help clinicians catch congenital fetal diseases in utero, but models for studying organ development and disease progression are limited. Over the last decade, ...

As the COVID-19 vaccine emerged last November and debates about the morality of benefiting from medicines developed using fetal cell lines ensued, groundbreaking reports of the development of a ...

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