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 ...
Researchers have succeeded in making human skin cells behave like egg cells, though the resulting fertilized embryos run them ...
Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major breakthrough for infertility research.
For the past two decades, biology textbooks have described CENP-E as a motor protein that moves along microtubules. The ...
The human genetic blueprint is deceptively simple. Our genes are tightly wound into 46 X-shaped structures called chromosomes. Crafted by evolution, they carry DNA and replicate when cells divide, ...
The answer – if you didn’t guess from the picture, above – is the Y chromosome. This is part of human DNA that makes foetuses ...
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 ...
The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...
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 ...
It's World Space Week! This year, the theme is "Living in Space", so we're revisiting our best articles on the challenges and ...