Another alarming discovery about the potential problems of plastic pollution ended with researchers issuing a warning about medical care for pregnant people. A team led by Leiden University biologist ...

Researchers have developed a method for culturing fertilized chick eggs without their shells. The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, allowing for real-time ...

I sometimes get asked if there's a physical difference between a fertilised and unfertilised chicken egg, so I cracked a few ...

The question of whether the chicken or the egg came first has puzzled philosophers, scientists, and the general public for centuries. This age-old debate touches on the origins of life, evolution, and ...

There are already two main methods of sexing unhatched chicken embryos, but they both have their drawbacks. One approach involves drilling a tiny hole in the shell of each egg, then withdrawing ...

Nanoplastics can accumulate in developing hearts, according to a study published in Environment International by biologist Meiru Wang from Leiden University. Her research on chicken embryos sheds new ...

Worldwide, approximately 7 billion day-old chicks are killed by suffocation or maceration because the factory farming industry has no use for them chicken hatching from its egg on an egg tray. The egg ...