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.

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

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

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 ...

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

Scientists have turned DNA from human skin cells into "functional" eggs that are capable of producing early human embryos, ...

US scientists have, for the first time, made human embryos using DNA from skin cells and sperm. This new technique could help ...

First, they obtained egg cells from volunteers and removed those cells’ nuclei. They then harvested skin cells from other ...

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

Early lab work shows reprogrammed skin cells can yield embryos, hinting at future infertility solutions but raising safety ...

Scientists of the study also pointed out that arguably more simple procedures such as freeze-drying sperm itself (rather than the cells that assist in healthy sperm production), may carry health risks ...