In the quest to create better options for couples facing infertility, scientists have been racing to create eggs and sperm in a laboratory dish. A study published Tuesday in Nature Communications from ...

Cells are busy places packed with molecules that jostle, react, and move. Biologists have long pictured the nucleus as the most crowded spot in that bustle, yet new measurements say otherwise. A multi ...

Maria Branyas Morera was the oldest person in the world when she died. Scientists analysed her genes, metabolism and more ...

In normal conditions (left), EGFR is tagged by c-Cbl/Grb2 for breakdown inside lysosomes. In hypoxia (right), the RNA molecule EUDAL prevents this process, keeping EGFR permanently active. This ...

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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Physicist Arvind Murugan earns Schmidt Science Polymath award for work at intersection of physics, biology, computation and materials science ...

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.

It all started with the idea of finding a better way to monitor genes. Plant biologists have traditionally employed various techniques to precisely track how info ...

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

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

Ovarian cancer is known for its aggressive spread, often targeting fatty tissues in the abdomen. Now, a study published in Nature Communications by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Queen Mary ...