Human skin cells have been used to produce fertilizable eggs in a proof-of-concept study that heralds a potential new ...

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.

Pioneering embryologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov reported that his team has encountered hurdles in creating functional human eggs ...

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

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop ...

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

Scientists describe the technique as an early proof of concept and say it could take at least a decade of further research ...

Highly challenging to sequence and long overlooked, the human Y chromosome's contributions to health and disease remain largely unknown. A new paper that presents, for the first time, the complete ...

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike ...

The Atlas blue butterfly, with a record-breaking 229 pairs of chromosomes, is helping scientists unravel mysteries of ...