Scientists have found a way to make atoms dance with light, quite literally. In certain crystals, vibrations called phonons can now merge with light waves to form entirely new hybrid states of matter.

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.

Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping women have their own genetic children when their natural eggs are dysfunctional, according to very early ...

University of Warwick research demonstrates how to engineer "cell factories" that last longer and produce more chemicals, ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

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.

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

Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat ...