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.

Scientists have developed functional eggs from ordinary human skin cells, a proof of concept that could open up new ways to ...

First, they obtained egg cells from volunteers and removed their nuclei. They then harvested skin cells from other volunteers ...

Cancer cells transfer mitochondria through nanotubes to healthy neighboring cells, turning them into tumor-supporting accomplices, a new study shows.

Human skin cells have been used to produce fertilizable eggs in a proof-of-concept study that heralds a potential new ...

Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major breakthrough for infertility research.

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

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

CALEC could become one of the first major examples of stem cell therapy's potential to repair once-unfixable injuries.

The OHSU team removed the nucleus from a human egg cell and replaced it with the nucleus from a human skin cell. But a skin ...

Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a study finds, furthering the understanding of the possible effects of ...

This preliminary work opens the door for infertile women and same-sex couples to have children with their own genetic material ...