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.

Schmidtea mediterranea, a freshwater flatworm (or planarian), has adult pluripotent stem cells spread all throughout its ...

Graham Johnson, a computational biologist and scientific illustrator at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, recalls fantasizing at a lunch table, more than 15 years ago, about a computer model of a ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that ...

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

Most of the oocytes stopped developing at the 4-to-10-cell stage of division. About 9 percent continued to develop into a blastocyst – a relatively low rate, but a successful first demonstration that ...

Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

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

Cedars-Sinai researchers created “young” immune cells from human stem cells that reversed cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm to one day help people conceive. Protecting the flock: A ...