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

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.

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For this, the cell must duplicate its DNA—its genome—and segregate it equally ...

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

Researchers have identified the exact DNA sequence where human chromosomes fuse to form Robertsonian chromosomes, a ...

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

This first step, called somatic cell nuclear transfer ... The goal would be to better capture what happens in a natural human pregnancy so that the right chromosomes are lost in the initial halving ...

An innovative use of skin cells could provide a route for same-sex couples or women with fertility problems to have children ...

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

The image shows a metaphase spindle in a human ovarian cancer cell, surrounded by interphase cells. Microtubules are ...

Researchers have created human embryos by taking nuclei from ordinary skin cells, placing them into donated eggs, and ...