Human bodies have to be built from a single egg cell that's fertilized by a sperm cell. Many rounds of cell division occur as the body is developing, and it seems that there are plenty of chances for ...

A microscope image of a human egg contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University) WASHINGTON — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create ...

Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major breakthrough for infertility research. Using a newly developed technique to ...

Early lab work shows reprogrammed skin cells can yield embryos, hinting at future infertility solutions but raising safety questions that demand more study. Infertility affects millions of people ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance that could expand possibilities for fertility treatment, according to new research. The ...

(Reuters) -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 ...

Advances in assisted reproduction are no longer limited to simple ovarian stimulation. An international team has just reached ...

Using a newly developed method researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) have been able to shed light on the complexity of genome ...

What happens when a sperm and egg meet? Scientists know surprisingly little about the molecular mechanics of fertilization; only three proteins central to the process have ever been identified, all in ...

WASHINGTON — A procedure that encourages an egg to begin embryo development without being fertilized could suggest a new way to produce stem cells, at least for certain patients. Researchers were able ...