This undated image provided by the Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University shows a a microscope image of a human egg that contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov ...

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

US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to ...

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 said Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilized them with sperm in the lab for the first time—a breakthrough that is hoped to one day let infertile people have ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. But the experiment ...

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