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

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

The research could open up avenues for fertility treatments after additional refinement and trials, but it also raises ...

The process, which would carry significant safety concerns, involves removing the nucleus from a woman's skin cell and inserting it into an egg, or oocyte.

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.

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 have developed functional eggs from ordinary human skin cells, a proof of concept that could open up new ways to ...

We all know the drill for reproduction—sperm meets egg. But mice aren’t people. And the same recipe doesn’t work for human reproductive cells. One reason, according to Dr. Mitinori Saitou at Kyoto ...

New research shows it's possible to reprogram skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab, though it's just a ...

Scientists said Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilized them with sperm in the lab for the first ...

The age of the father plays a role in pregnancy outcomes, with harmful genetic changes in sperm being substantially more ...