According to recent reports, experts believe this technology may become a reality within the next two to ten years, ...

A recent Trump executive order defines sex based on gamete size. But the order oversimplifies genetics, hormones and reproductive biology.

In a potential breakthrough for infertility and genetic disease treatments, scientists at Kyoto University have succeeded in mass-generating precursors to sperm and eggs from human iPS cells. Two ...

Generational wounds may live in our genes. New research suggests that childhood trauma leads to a difference in the epigenetics of a sperm cell, which can impact a child's development and also be ...

SPO11-mediated DNA cleavage therefore represents a high-stakes gamble for a cell: double-strand breaks (DSBs) are a potentially catastrophic type of genome damage if not properly repaired ...

Technology reprograms stem cells or skin cells to act as either eggs or sperm, a technique that has been successful in mice. Scientists produced a healthy offspring from two male mice. While the ...

At the International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute in London, Japanese ...

IVG would let someone create an egg or sperm cell from any cell of the human body. That means a bit of skin could become a sperm that fertilizes an egg with someone’s genetic material.

Scientists might soon be able to create eggs and sperm from skin and blood cells. What will that mean? Humans are off limits for now, but the work does help us better understand a strange ...

Generational wounds may live in our genes. New research suggests that childhood trauma leads to a difference in the epigenetics of a sperm cell, which can impact a child's development and also be ...

Reproduction may be revolutionised by this technique, which uses stem cells to create sperm and eggs in a lab. IVG may be used for purposes other than reproductive treatments, as it was initially ...

Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This ...