For couples struggling with infertility, a genetic diagnosis can reduce years of repeated and inconclusive testing, guide ...

New studies are shedding light on one of the biggest mysteries of human reproduction and what can be done to combat it.

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Human eggs have been "rejuvenated" for the first time, an advance scientists say could revolutionise IVF success rates for ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Chromosomes are thread-like structures that carry a cell's ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

When you think of a chromosome, you might imagine an X-shaped structure. But chromosomes take this shape only during cell division; the rest of the time, they adopt a structure that looks amorphous ...

Scientists have "rejuvenated" human eggs in vitro for the first time, a breakthrough that could significantly improve IVF ...

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be ...

A detailed map of human chromosomes within the nucleus is presented in Nature this week. This resource provides a foundation for an improved understanding of how the physical layout of human DNA is ...