Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of an oocyte with a bright image of a skin cell nucleus before fertilization. via Oregon Health & Science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that human egg cells may be protected against certain age-driven changes seen across the rest of the body.

In what could be a breakthrough in reproductive medicine, a US biotechnology company says it has successfully created the world's first early-stage human egg cells from stem cells, an advance that ...

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New research shows it's possible to reprogram skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab, though it's just a proof of concept for now. Reading time 3 minutes A team of scientists has ...

Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm to one day help people conceive. But the experiment resulted in ...

A protective coating prolonged the survival and function of transplanted islet cells in diabetic mice, offering a novel cell ...

An immature human oocyte fixed and immunolabeled with intracellular organelles markers. Mitochondria are shown in orange, the endoplasmic reticulum is shown in lilac, and the actin cytoskeleton is ...

My pal Jennifer Lahl, head of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, and anti-slavery activist Michele Clark, demonstrate one of the dehumanizing potential of human cloning research, and the danger ...

A dramatic zinc spark seen in human egg research has fuelled debate over science, Quranic claims and the meaning of the phenomenon.