We all know the drill for reproduction—sperm meets egg. But mice aren’t people. And the same recipe doesn’t work for human reproductive cells. One reason, according to Dr. Mitinori Saitou at Kyoto ...

When sperm meets egg, the start of life is not quiet. Under a special microscope, researchers have watched a tiny light show at fertilization. They see a microscopic flash at fertilization, a burst of ...

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, detailed how US ...

New research shows it's possible to reprogram skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab, though it's just a proof of concept for now. Reading time 3 minutes A team of scientists has ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

The ability to create egg cells from human skin represents one of the most extraordinary frontiers in reproductive science. Researchers are exploring how to reprogramme ordinary body cells into viable ...

This undated image provided by the Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University shows a a microscope image of a human egg that contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov ...

Human egg cells have the ability to "power down" their internal recycling plants to protect themselves from harmful DNA damage as they age. This is the conclusion of an international team of ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells behave like egg cells—a technique that could change the course of the future of ...

The method could one day become a treatment for infertility A decade of further research needed, scientists say The process overcomes an obstacle that stymied previous attempts Significant safety ...