Peripheral immune tolerance is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own ...

Their discoveries have advanced treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases and may improve transplant success.

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries ...

Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm ...

WASHINGTON — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm to one day help people conceive.

Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping women have their own genetic ...

Scientists have developed functional eggs from ordinary human skin cells, a proof of concept that could open up new ways to treat infertility.

More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might someday be used in IVF to help infertile people and male couples.

Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat ...

Human eggs made from a volunteer’s skin DNA were fertilized in a lab in September, and some grew for nearly a week, though many failed.