The age-old question of the chicken or the egg is explored through evolutionary biology. Eggs, as membrane-bound containers for embryo development, predate chickens by millions of years. However, the ...

Researchers have succeeded in making human skin cells behave like egg cells, though the resulting fertilized embryos run them ...

Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major ...

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.

The two main ways to get pregnant without having sex are with IUI and IVF. It's very rare to get accidentally pregnant without having penetrative sex.

On Wednesday, Oct. 1, the State Medical Affairs Subcommittee will hear public testimony on Senate Bill 323, a total abortion ban also known as the Unborn Child Protection Act. Women in Leadership said ...

A review in Clinical Epigenetics synthesizes growing evidence that paternal lifestyle and environmental exposures such as ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that ...

Scientists have sought to capture the first days of how a person comes to be, by recreating those early moments in a lab via models made up of induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPSCs. Induced ...

The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, also moved the needle. Scientists had successfully ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that ...

A remarkably well-preserved dinosaur embryo, unearthed from a fossilized egg in southern China, is offering scientists an ...