Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This ...

How a sperm and an egg fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to produce functional eggs using a new scientific technique they say could one day help ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

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

Scientists might soon be able to create eggs and sperm from skin and blood cells. What will that mean? The way we make babies could be about to change. Maybe. An embryo forms when sperm meets egg. But ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

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