Reproduction involves making quality gametes – egg and sperm – which are essential for species continuity and therefore have huge implications for human health. The quality of the gametes is not only ...

Scientists are working to create human eggs in a laboratory dish, but the process is proving to be more challenging than ...

Pioneering embryologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov reported that his team has encountered hurdles in creating functional human eggs ...

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

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is increasingly being used to facilitate conception in both clinical and veterinary medicine. Infertility rates are on the rise amongst the global human ...

Scientists said Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilised them with sperm in the lab for the first ...

Findings from a Yale-affiliated study indicate that the female orgasm evolved from ovulation in mammals and that it plays no functional role in reproduction in humans. Researchers have discovered that ...

Once again naked mole-rats have dealt scientists an exciting blow, with new research suggesting their anomalies in mammalian reproduction could hold the key to preserving human fertility. “Naked ...

There are those, politicians, pundits and even a few scientists, who maintain that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know about sex. They assert that men and women are defined by ...

Eggcelsior! Scientists have made a landmark breakthrough that enables the creation of viable human egg cells from a skin cell ...