Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists reveal potential hurdles for extraterrestrial human reproduction. Here, sunlight illuminates the lower right of planet ...

Researchers should urgently think about how humans can reproduce in space, experts have said. As humanity looks towards living beyond Earth, we need to understand how human reproduction will actually ...

In the quest to create better options for couples facing infertility, scientists have been racing to create eggs and sperm in a laboratory dish. A study published Tuesday in Nature Communications from ...

The rise in infertility is not limited to humans, as environmental stressors are quietly undermining the reproductive ...

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 ...

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 ...