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

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

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.

Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm ...

Eggcelsior! Scientists have made a landmark breakthrough that enables the creation of viable human egg cells from a skin cell, new research claims. The study, published in Nature Communications, ...

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 ...

The new method overcomes an obstacle that has stymied previous attempts at this process, the researchers said.

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...