(RNS) — Scientists have created a human embryo without the use of sperm or an egg — a true test-tube baby. Such embryos cannot (yet) develop into full-grown human beings. Even if transplanted into a ...
FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2013, file photo, an in vitro fertilization embryologist works on a petri dish at a fertility clinic in London. Tens of thousands of people undergo in vitro fertilization every ...
To believe in the sanctity of life is to deny biomedical fact. Human reproduction is fundamentally flawed and grossly inefficient. Conceptional life is generally unsustainable, living on borrowed time ...
In 2016, two Japanese reproductive biologists, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Mitinori Saitou, made an announcement in the journal Nature that read like a science-fiction novel. The researchers had taken skin ...
The world’s first baby conceived through an AI-assisted IVF process marks a historic leap in fertility science. Using robotic ...
About 40 years ago, Louise Brown, the first human created using in vitro fertilization, was conceived in a petri dish. Not long after her birth, Leon Kass, a prominent biologist and ethicist at the ...
Scientists have successfully created immature human egg-like cells from skin-derived stem cells, a significant step in reproductive science. This brea ...
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 ...