Exposures before birth and in early life, including paternal smoking and maternal obesity, are key predictors of lung health and aging.

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm ...

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...

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 ...

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.

The process, which would carry significant safety concerns, involves removing the nucleus from a woman's skin cell and inserting it into an egg, or oocyte.

It is no longer science fiction: human embryos have now been made from DNA in skin cells that were fertilised with sperm, a move that redrafts the biological limits of reproduction. At an Oregon ...

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