Shelby is an Assistant Editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD from West Virginia University in immunology and microbiology and completed an AAAS Mass Media fellowship. View Full Profile. Learn ...

Idaho's Republican Gov. Brad Little has signed a law requiring schools to teach about fetal development, a move proponents ...

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. Shelby is an Assistant Editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD ...

Human development starts from a single fertilized oocyte that has the potential to develop into both foetal and extraembryonic tissues. After fertilisation and during the next few cell divisions ...