Early lab work shows reprogrammed skin cells can yield embryos, hinting at future infertility solutions but raising safety ...

The research could open up avenues for fertility treatments after additional refinement and trials, but it also raises ...

Despite significant biomedical advances in recent decades, the very earliest events of human development¬--those that occur during a critical window just after fertilization--have remained an ...

Scientists based at The Rockefeller University have created an experimental system that models the implantation of a human embryo. The new system, an adaptation of one used to recapitulate the ...

US scientists have created embryo from human skin cells for the first time.A team scientist has turned DNA from human skin ...

The technique, still in its early stages, could eventually help people facing age, illness, or same-sex infertility become ...

A stunning explosion of zinc fireworks occurs when a human egg is activated by a sperm enzyme, and the size of these 'sparks' is a direct measure of the quality of the egg and its ability to develop ...

Some men produce too many sperms. That little-mentioned fact was the focus of my previous blog post. (See Why Too Many Sperms Spoil the Egg, posted on August 11, 2017.) With too many sperms, an ...

For the first time, a study shows that female eggs may not necessarily be required to create offspring; scientists from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom have developed a technique that ...

A young Black couple sits on a couch smiling, as the man lays his hand on the pregnant belly of his partner If you’re thinking about pregnancy, you’ve probably come across the term implantation in ...