Low soil nutrients slow rye’s gene mixing, a study shows, offering new insight into how environmental stress shapes crop ...

Yale researchers have created a new method for simulating “aging-like” chromosome errors in mouse eggs to better understand ...

Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply - and can contribute to infertility, pregnancy ...

Plenty of useful facts are taught in biology classes − from the nutrients necessary for the human body to the mechanisms that ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have achieved a scientific first: transforming human skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab. Their study, published Tuesday in Nature ...

In a controversial step that raises the possibility of a new kind of infertility treatment, scientists report that they have produced functional human eggs in the lab that were able to be fertilized ...

Neil Hunter, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has discovered a crucial step in how chromosomes stay connected during the development for egg cells and sperm, ...