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

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

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.

Before cells can divide, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can ...

cell. However, it presents significant challenges of its own. One of these is extra chromosomes. A normal gamete contains one set of 23 chromosomes, half the number found in most body cells. A gamete ...

Researchers say findings help to bridge the structure of the genome to its function in managing how genes are turned on and off.

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

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have accomplished a unique proof of concept to treat infertility by turning ...

The answer – if you didn’t guess from the picture, above – is the Y chromosome. This is part of human DNA that makes foetuses ...

From secret mushroom worlds to extreme close-ups of cell motion, these photographs represent how, in science, things often ...