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

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 ...

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 created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major ...

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.

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

A reproductive medicine professor described the work as an “exciting proof of concept” that may change approaches to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A Republican lawmaker introduced a bill this week that would require Ohio public schools to show a video about fetal ...