Scientists Made Human Eggs From Skin Cells and Used Them to Form Embryos

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...
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First Human Embryos Created Using Skin Cell DNA and Sperm

It is no longer science fiction: human embryos have now been made from DNA in skin cells that were fertilised with sperm, a ...
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The Quest to Sequence the Genomes of Everything

Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells contain a nucleus. From protozoa to human beings, all have the same basic biological mechanism for building, maintaining, and propagating their form of life: a ...
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Landmark discovery reveals how chromosomes are passed from one generation to the next

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb.

When mom and dad's DNA don't match up, the embryo finds a way

When a sperm meets an egg, a lot has to go right for an embryo to develop into a complete organism. One critical step of ...