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

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

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.

US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to ...

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

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

In a significant step foward, Oregon scientists have created lab-grown eggs using human skin cells; however, the process ...

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

The first steps of human development—those that occur within the first few weeks of pregnancy—remain mysterious in many ways. Within a week of fertilization, human embryos form a blastocyst, which ...

Human bodies have to be built from a single egg cell that's fertilized by a sperm cell. Many rounds of cell division occur as the body is developing, and it seems that there are plenty of chances for ...