Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping women have their own genetic ...

"For the first time, scientists have shown that DNA from ordinary body cells can be placed into an egg, activated, and made ...

Cell division is one of the most thoroughly studied processes in biology, yet many of its details remain mysterious. A ...

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

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have achieved a scientific first: transforming human skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab. Their study, published Tuesday in Nature ...

US scientists have created embryo from human skin cells for the first time.A team scientist has turned DNA from human skin ...

Every time a eukaryotic cell divides, it faces a monumental challenge: It must carefully duplicate and divide its genetic ...

Ahead of the Oct 6 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, we take a look back at UCSF's Nobel laueretes, their discoveries, ...

When a sperm meets an egg, a lot has to go right for an embryo to develop into a complete organism. One critical step of ...

A TED Talk-style presentation on the effects of tangled DNA strands took first place at this year's Postdoc Slam competition, ...