Scientists in Japan are at the forefront of one the most controversial areas of biomedical research: creating sperm and eggs in the laboratory from practically any cell in the body. Well, it's not ...

Figure 1: Characterization of met1 mutants. Figure 3: Maintenance of methylation in somatic tissues of met1 heterozygotes and its loss during gametogenesis. The observed epigenetic segregation ...

Researchers meticulously examined the gametogenesis of budding yeast, a process involving meiosis and spore formation, using live imaging techniques. Their findings revealed that during sporulation, ...

Infertility affects approximately 1 in 6 people in their lifetime worldwide according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Infertility - as defined by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine ...

Since Louise Brown, the first IVF baby in the world, was born in 1978, millions of infertile couples have been able to become parents. In past decades, the field of reproductive medicine has witnessed ...

Until recently, the only way to make eggs or sperm was the old-fashioned way: in the ovaries and testes. In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to use cells from almost any part of the body ...

In-vitro gametogenesis: New technology could revolutionize reproductive options New scientific developments could revolutionize one way humans can reproduce, with a technique called in-vitro ...

A new report provides an overview of the legal, ethical, and policy questions raised by in vitro gametogenesis (IVG)—the creation of lab-grown eggs and sperm. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

In vitro gametogenesis (IVG) holds much potential for same-sex couples and women of a more advanced age struggling with infertility, but the question is whether we’re quite there yet. On the hope that ...

Gametogenesis is a fundamental aspect of sexual reproduction in eukaryotes. In the unicellular fungi Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast) and Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast), where this ...