While females of many animal species, including humans, live longer on average than their male counterparts, the reason remained a mystery—but a group of scientists from Osaka University may have ...

A common ingredient in plastic may cause breaks in DNA strands, leading to egg cells with an abnormal number of chromosomes in roundworms, reveals a new study led by Monica Colaiácovo of Harvard ...

In-Vitro Gametogenesis (IVG) is a groundbreaking reproductive technology that could change the future of assisted reproduction. It involves the conversion of ordinary stem cells—obtained from your ...

U.S. scientists have entered into the first clinical trial of extracting stem cells that create sperm and implanting them back into the body to induce sperm production. It appears that a path to ...

Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping women have their own genetic children when their natural eggs are dysfunctional, according to very early ...

A team of scientists at the University of Seville has identified an essential process that protects DNA integrity in reproductive cells, providing new clues about how organisms avoid genetic defects ...

A team of researchers from the US has turned DNA from human skin cells into "functional" eggs, which were able to be fertilised by sperm in a lab. While only around 10 per cent of the fertilised eggs ...