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.

(BOSTON) — More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only for increased access to affordable, high-quality fertility care ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have accomplished a unique proof of concept to treat infertility by turning ...

It is no longer science fiction: human embryos have now been made from DNA in skin cells that were fertilised with sperm, a move that redrafts the biological limits of reproduction. At an Oregon ...

It may soon be possible to coax human skin cells into becoming functional eggs and sperm using a technique known as "in vitro gametogenesis." This involves the creation (genesis) of eggs and sperm ...

Michigan State University scientists have pinpointed the molecular "switch" that supercharges sperm for their final sprint to ...

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...