Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

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

Scientists have used an experimental approach to form human eggs in the lab that can then be fertilized ... and eggs carry half the chromosomes as nonreproductive cells in the body do. During ...

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.

The team used human stem cells to create embryo-like structures dubbed “hematoids” that mirror some features of early human ...

“In addition to offering hope for millions of people with infertility due to lack of eggs or sperm, this method would allow for the possibility of same-sex couples to have a child genetically related ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Researchers reviewed more than 60 studies and found evidence that plastic particles can reach bone tissue, disrupt cell ...

In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a 'fairy tale,' rooted in ...