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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists in the United States have successfully created early-stage human embryos using skin DNA. Deoxyribonucleic acid, ...

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 ...