Who hasn't seen it before: the view through the microscope in which a sperm penetrates an egg cell and fertilizes it. This fundamental step in procreation happens dynamically and seemingly without ...

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

The research could open up avenues for fertility treatments after additional refinement and trials, but it also raises ...

Prof Josef Hanna demonstrates the process he and his team of scientists used to develop models of early-stage human embryos ...

Alabama lawmakers, reacting to public outcry over the state Supreme Court's decision that embryos created by in vitro fertilization are legally the same as children, passed a law on March 7 designed ...

Credit: Natalia Lebedinskaia via Getty Images Scientists have created human eggs in the lab using a similar process to the one used to clone the famous Dolly the sheep, then used in vitro ...

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.

US researchers successfully created early-stage human embryos from adult skin cells, bypassing traditional egg cells through ...