Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In sexual reproduction, gametes containing a single set of chromosomes combine ...

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

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

Asexual reproduction, in which females reproduce without males by cloning themselves, has been documented in multiple species ...

At a lab in the heart of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, scientists are breeding corals to be more resilient to rising ocean temperatures.

In a groundbreaking development, scientists have successfully transformed human skin cells into fertilizable eggs in the laboratory for the first time. This breakthrough, which has the potential to ...

Bees swarm the queen to protect her and start a new, more sustainable colony capable of producing the next generation of bees.

The researchers even coined a word for it, xenoparity, meaning “foreign birth”. It pushes the boundaries of what we mean by “species”. And this is the first known case in the animal kingdom of this ...

An illegal cigarette factory and 300 metric tons of cigarettes have been found in Cassino around 120 kilometres south-east of Rome, Italian police reported on Saturday. One person was arrested, and ...

If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...

Lab-made organoids that mimic reproductive tissues could point to treatments for common conditions such as pre-eclampsia and endometriosis.