A new book suggests that within just 20 to 40 years, most human reproduction will take place in the lab, rather than the bedroom. Hank Greely, a Stanford professor who teaches law and genetics, writes ...

Researchers are inching closer to mass-producing eggs and sperm in the lab from ordinary human cells. The technique could provide new ways to treat infertility but also open a Pandora's box. We are ...

Science fiction writers have imagined just about every aspect of life in some far-off future — including how humans will reproduce. And usually, their visions have included a backlash against those ...

For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology was founded in 1985 by Robert Edwards (University of Cambridge) and J. Cohen (Paris), who felt that the study and research in the field of ...

Researchers from Edinburgh University, UK, in collaboration with a team from Harvard Medical School, are attempting to successfully produce mature human eggs sourced from stem cells. Isolated from ...

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In the quest to create better options for couples facing infertility, scientists have been racing to create eggs and sperm in a laboratory dish. A study published Tuesday in Nature Communications from ...

This has implications for their role within human reproduction. Failure of chromosomal organization within human egg and sperm cells result in miscarriages and infertility. However, the mechanisms ...