Scientists said Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilized them with sperm in the lab for the first ...

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

Zebrafish can regenerate sensory hair cells that humans permanently lose, like those in the inner ear linked to hearing and balance. New research reveals two specific genes that control how different ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop ...

"For the first time, scientists have shown that DNA from ordinary body cells can be placed into an egg, activated, and made ...

A human female is born with all the egg cells she will ever have. The possibility for the development of new oocytes is zero. Given this constraint, it is crucial that these gametes remain healthy and ...

Using a new artificial intelligence method, researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons can accurately predict the activity of genes within any human cell, ...

Scientists have identified a new anti-ageing drug class that works by acting on a key gut bacteria process, an advance that ...

“Like riding a bike” is shorthand for the remarkable way that our bodies remember how to move. Most of the time when we talk ...

DREAM complex acts as master brake on DNA repair, where higher activity steadily increases mutations and accelerates aging.

The ticking of the biological clock is especially loud in the ovaries—the organs that store and release a woman's eggs. From age 25 to 40, a woman's chance of conceiving each month decreases ...

How humans move is an open question, according to Mark Latash, distinguished professor of kinesiology at Penn State.