Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat infertility and enable gay couples to have genetically related children.

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

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 ...

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In sexual reproduction, gametes containing a single set of chromosomes combine ...

Pioneering embryologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov reported that his team has encountered hurdles in creating functional human eggs in the lab ...

Eggcelsior! Scientists have made a landmark breakthrough that enables the creation of viable human egg cells from a skin cell, new research claims. The study, published in Nature Communications, ...

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Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals profibrotic macrophage-stromal interactions macrophage-derived CCL2, CCL5, and SPP1, and TGF-β signaling as key drivers of fibrosis and pathogenesis in intrauterine ...

FOR a long time methods analogous to those of statistical mechanics have been applied to animal and plant communities. But just as in physical chemistry these methods soon become intolerably cumbrous ...