Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is increasingly being used to facilitate conception in both clinical and veterinary medicine. Infertility rates are on the rise amongst the global human ...

For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

Artificial human reproduction appears to be on the horizon with Japanese scientists' claim to have created immature human eggs from stem cells, but the technique could result in power that would cross ...

Men holding high positions within a hierarchical organisation have more offspring than those in other positions within the same organisation. This unexpected result, published this week in Ethology, ...

Findings from a Yale-affiliated study indicate that the female orgasm evolved from ovulation in mammals and that it plays no functional role in reproduction in humans. Researchers have discovered that ...

Researchers from Edinburgh University, UK, in collaboration with a team from Harvard Medical School, are attempting to successfully produce mature human eggs sourced from stem cells. Isolated from ...

In 1972, citizen scientist Sir Elton John hypothesized that Mars "ain't the kind of place to raise your kids." Human stem cells become more active in space — and that's not a good thing How the body ...

Aristotle was puzzled. Freud had his own ideas. But no one theory has satisfactorily answered the question: Why do women have orgasms? Orgasms in human females are not necessary for reproduction. The ...