The scientists behind the experiment stated that this development brings humanity one step closer to establishing an alternative to IVF.

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

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

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

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.

Scientists in the Netherlands have transformed sperm cells into microscopic robots in a move that could transform the future of fertility. The team from the University of Twente, in the Netherland, ...

The research paves the way for people who currently rely on donor eggs and sperm to have their own genetic children ...

It is no longer science fiction: human embryos have now been made from DNA in skin cells that were fertilised with sperm, a move that redrafts the biological limits of reproduction. At an Oregon ...

Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A protein known as MPS1 helps to ensure that a key process during cell division of oocytes—unfertilized egg cells—occurs in a timely manner, RIKEN biologists have discovered. This finding in mice may ...

(CNN) — Marijuana may damage oocytes — unfertilized eggs in female ovaries — in ways researchers worry may lead to infertility, miscarriage and possible genetic defects in babies, new research has ...