Over the past few decades, growing evidence has challenged the belief that inheritance is governed solely by DNA sequences.

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 ...

Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm ...

When planning a trip, it's rare that you don't have a choice of route. One may be more direct, another more scenic; but regardless of the time or route taken, the destination is the same. This concept ...

A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first ...

A new study led by Pr. Serge McGraw, researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine and professor at Université de Montréal, shows that the effects of alcohol exposure on an embryo prior to implantation in the ...

A novel study from EMBL Rome scientists reveals that a father's preconception environment can leave subtle - but detectable - ...