The process, which would carry significant safety concerns, involves removing the nucleus from a woman's skin cell and ...

The new platform's ethically grounded approach promises to reveal much about how human embryos form during the earliest stages of pregnancy. It's one of life's most defining moments -- that crucial ...

A collaborative team led by Ana Boskovic and Jamie Hackett at EMBL Rome explored how different paternal preconception ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four ...

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. “They are not identical,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a ...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have successfully transformed human skin cells into egg cells, ...

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

Researchers from Nanjing University and Nanjing Medical University have identified sperm microRNAs as key messengers that ...

Fragments of DNA left by viruses that infected our distant ancestors may be 'firestarters' for new human life, new research ...

How can we explain the morphological diversity of living organisms? Although genetics is the answer that typically springs to mind, it is not the only explanation. By combining observations of ...