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

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

For the past two decades, biology textbooks have described CENP-E as a motor protein that moves along microtubules. The ...

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

Advances in genome editing are transforming the treatment for rare genetic diseases, as seen in the case of seven-month-old ...

It is no longer science fiction: human embryos have now been made from DNA in skin cells that were fertilised with sperm, a move that redrafts the biological limits of reproduction. At an Oregon ...

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.

Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major ...

That changed in 2014, when Swedish scientists showed that Y loss in blood cells correlates with how long men live – those who ...

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

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

A team of researchers from the US has turned DNA from human skin cells into "functional" eggs, which were able to be fertilised by sperm in a lab. While only around 10 per cent of the fertilised eggs ...