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 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 ...

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males ...

Biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate and is driven by human activity: contamination, greenhouse gases and extreme temperatures. But how exactly do these factors affect the reproduction and ...

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 ...

There is something, however, that distinctly separates us humans from the vast majority of mammals: we live long past our reproductive years. Most living things continue reproducing until they ...

At a lab in the heart of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, scientists are breeding corals to be more resilient to rising ocean temperatures.

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...

Students in undergraduate and graduate programs learn biological concepts taught by dedicated faculty and gain hands-on research experiences in the laboratory and field using first-class equipment, ...

GENEVA, Ill. — A Kane County man accused of child porn possession and reproduction is now facing a slew of felony charges. Karl Bibler, a 27-year-old Geneva resident, has been charged with several ...