Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have accomplished a unique proof of concept to treat infertility by turning ...

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

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

Eggcelsior! Scientists have made a landmark breakthrough that enables the creation of viable human egg cells from a skin cell, new research claims. The study, published in Nature Communications, ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a proof of concept that turns skin cells into eggs ...

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.

After repeated, recent statements by U.S. President Joe Biden that he does not believe human life begins at the moment of conception, or characterizing such a belief as a matter of faith, scientists ...

Some of the old distractions concerning the abortion debate have been circulating, including in letters to the editor in the News Tribune (Reader's View: "Are pro-life zealots really control freaks?" ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. As an evolutionary biologist whose career ...

This complicated but fundamental question has enormous ethical, legal, medical, philosophical, religious and scientific overtones. An article in The Journal of the Association of Basic Medical ...

Voters in the presidential election have many issues to consider, but yet only two candidates to evaluate where they stand. Some issues intertwine while others stand alone. The major issues in most ...

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...