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

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

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

Human eggs made from a volunteer’s skin DNA were fertilized in a lab in September, and some grew for nearly a week, though many failed.

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, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells.

Scientists have used human skin cells to produce functional eggs using a new scientific technique they say could one day help infertile people have their own biological children.

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

First, they obtained egg cells from volunteers and removed those cells’ nuclei. They then harvested skin cells from other volunteers, cultured these and let individual cells from the culture fuse with ...

This image shows a human egg after its original DNA has been replaced with DNA from an adult skin cell. (Mitalipov laboratory) Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells ...

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 ...