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

They derive their energy from differences in the concentration of hydrogen ions across some of these membranes ...

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

Egg whites may be perfect for a health-conscious breakfast, but egg yolks turned out to be the key ingredient for cultivating ...

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.

Tick-borne encephalitis virus can infect the nervous system and cause life-threatening illness. Finding the cellular gateway ...

An ambitious and revolutionary initiative aims to map every cell of all eukaryotic life on Earth. The result will be a ...

The most common type of liver cancer in children, hepatoblastoma, surprisingly appears to contain many immune cells from a type that has long been ...

A new study of ancient, extinct fish known as placoderms provides another piece of the evolutionary puzzle about our deep ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed chemical fossils from more than 541 million years ago.

Cambridge scientists built a two-part cancer drug that activates only in tumors with high enzyme levels, showing promise in ...

Health officials have lifted a water quality advisory for Bowditch Point Park on Fort Myers Beach. An earlier test showed ...