Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This ...

Researchers have created human embryos by taking nuclei from ordinary skin cells, placing them into donated eggs, and ...

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.

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists have used an experimental approach to form human eggs in the lab that can then be ...

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

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have accomplished a unique proof of concept to treat infertility by turning ...

But improved fertility treatment is still far away ...