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.

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

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

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

Scientists in the United States have successfully created early-stage human embryos using skin DNA. Deoxyribonucleic acid, ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to produce functional eggs using a new scientific technique they say could one day help ...

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 ...

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

An innovative use of skin cells could provide a route for gay couples or women with fertility problems to have children that ...

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

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.