The process, which would carry significant safety concerns, involves removing the nucleus from a woman's skin cell and inserting it into an egg, or oocyte.

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm ...

Pioneering embryologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov reported that his team has encountered hurdles in creating functional human eggs ...

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...

Scientists said Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilized them with sperm in the lab for the first ...

More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might someday be used in IVF to help infertile people and male couples.

Stem cell therapy reversed stroke damage in mice, regenerating neurons and restoring movement. The findings bring scientists ...

A reproductive medicine professor described the work as an “exciting proof of concept” that may change approaches to ...

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

Scientists describe the technique as an early proof of concept and say it could take at least a decade of further research ...

Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat ...