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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Researchers have succeeded in making human skin cells behave like egg cells, though the resulting fertilized embryos run them ...

Using a newly developed technique to remove excess chromosomes, a team led by clinical biologist Nuria Marti-Gutierrez of Oregon Health & Science University has created human eggs that can undergo ...