Haploid plants, which carry only a single set of chromosomes, are typically sterile, making them valuable but difficult to ...

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization ... process we are calling 'mitomeiosis'. The now-haploid egg is then fertilized with sperm from the other intended parent, resulting in ...

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

A Nature study shows sperm from older fathers carry more disease-linked mutations, revealing how age and cell competition ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance that could expand possibilities for fertility treatment, according to new research. The ...

From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs. Now-famous drawings by the neuroanatomist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed, for the first time, the ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...