Stem cell IVF could enable same-sex couples and single parents to have genetically related children. It’s time to think ...

A team of scientists at the University of Seville has identified an essential process that protects DNA integrity in reproductive cells, providing new clues about how organisms avoid genetic defects ...

(Reuters) -Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping women have their own genetic children when their natural eggs are dysfunctional, according to ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells behave like egg cells—a technique that could change the course of the future of ...

A team of researchers from the US has turned DNA from human skin cells into "functional" eggs, which were able to be fertilised by sperm in a lab. While only around 10 per cent of the fertilised eggs ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- While humans can’t renew their reproductive cells and organs if damaged, many invertebrates can as part of whole-body regeneration. Understanding how and why could have major ...

Genetic analyses of koala pedigrees help to suss out virus-induced genome changes that affect cancer risk and reproductive ...

Older mice have more new mutations -- changes in DNA sequence that occur in the individual rather than being inherited from a parent -- than younger mice in the genomes of their mitochondria, ...

It’s not just about chromosomes. Or reproductive cells. Or any other binary metric. Many genetic, environmental and developmental variations can produce what are thought of as masculine and feminine ...

Scientists have separated the sperm which carry X and Y chromosomes, in a study which could one day have "colossal" implications for choosing the sex of animals including humans. Sperm carry either an ...

Germline cells are the only cells that develop into eggs or sperm, while somatic cells develop into the body. Progenitors of the germline, known as primordial germ cells (PGCs), differentiate into ...