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.

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things—including a crucial event that happened ...

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New research shows it's possible to reprogram skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab, though it's just a ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to produce functional eggs using a new scientific technique they say could one day help ...

Human fertility hinges on a delicate molecular ballet that begins even before birth. UC Davis researchers have uncovered how special protein networks safeguard chromosomes as eggs and sperm form, ...

Scientists might soon be able to create eggs and sperm from skin and blood cells. What will that mean? The way we make babies could be about to change. Maybe. An embryo forms when sperm meets egg. But ...

Scientists have pinpointed how sperm and egg fuse together across the animal kingdom, from fish to people. How a sperm and an egg fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in ...

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