A scientist has moved a step closer to turning sexually-reproducing plants into asexual reproducers, a finding that could have profound implications for agriculture. Farmers throughout the world spend ...

WASHINGTON -- Using a technique that may provide an alternative to therapeutic cloning, researchers created a monkey embryo asexually without the use of sperm to make stem cells that then turned into ...

Why is sex so popular among plants and animals, and why isn't asexual reproduction, or cloning, a more common reproductive strategy? Why is sex so popular among plants and animals, and why isn't ...

Question: What is it about plants that makes it possible for you to grow them from a cutting rather than having to always start them from seed? I’m planning to expand my garden this season and want to ...

Most of the time, when a cell in our bodies divides, each new cell carries a complete set of chromosomes. The cells involved with human reproduction, however, carry only half after division occurs. In ...

Rotifers are tiny aquatic creatures with options: They can have sex, or they can simply clone themselves. And this ability to go both ways has made them interesting subjects in the study of the ...

Distinctions that require explanations tend to get lost in public debate, and the controversy over cloning is a perfect example. There are two fundamentally different types of cloning -- "reproductive ...