The team used human stem cells to create embryo-like structures dubbed “hematoids” that mirror some features of early human ...

Scientists have used an experimental approach to form human eggs in the lab that can then be fertilized ... and eggs carry half the chromosomes as nonreproductive cells in the body do. During ...

Who hasn't seen it before: the view through the microscope in which a sperm penetrates an egg cell and fertilizes it. This fundamental step in procreation happens dynamically and seemingly without ...

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

The technique, still in its early stages, could eventually help people facing age, illness, or same-sex infertility become biological parents.

In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a “fairy tale” rooted in ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully created human eggs from skin cells that can be fertilized. NewsNation’s Max ...

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.

US researchers successfully created early-stage human embryos from adult skin cells, bypassing traditional egg cells through ...