The research could open up avenues for fertility treatments after additional refinement and trials, but it also raises ...

The process, which would carry significant safety concerns, involves removing the nucleus from a woman's skin cell and inserting it into an egg, or oocyte.

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm ...

Alabama lawmakers, reacting to public outcry over the state Supreme Court's decision that embryos created by in vitro fertilization are legally the same as children, passed a law on March 7 designed ...

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

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

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...

A reproductive medicine professor described the work as an “exciting proof of concept” that may change approaches to ...

New research shows it's possible to reprogram skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab, though it's just a ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Southern Baptists on Wednesday voted to oppose the use of in vitro fertilization while also affirming a belief that embryos kept in freezers are "human beings." Despite some internal ...

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.