A review in Clinical Epigenetics synthesizes growing evidence that paternal lifestyle and environmental exposures such as diet, obesity, smoking, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and stress alter sperm ...

It's a Wednesday morning at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in downtown Washington, D.C., and Dr. Eli Adashi is opening an unprecedented gathering: It's titled "In-Vitro ...

SALT LAKE CITY— In the body, a skin cell will always be skin, and a heart cell will always be heart. But in the first hours of life, cells in the nascent embryo become totipotent: they have the ...

Oh, brave new world, that has such embryos in it. In a dramatic scientific first, researchers have created synthetic human embryos without using sperm or an egg. No one knows if these embryonic ...

The first mice to be created from two fathers, a phenomenon known as androgenesis, have now produced healthy offspring for the first time. Researchers implanted two sperm in an egg with its nucleus ...

US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child.

UNDATED (WKRC) - The results from a new study could help scientists discover how to tackle problems like infertility and organ transplants. In this study, published in the journal Nature, scientists ...

Scientists have created mouse embryos in a dish, and it could one day help families hoping to get pregnant, according to a new study. After 10 years of research, scientists created a synthetic mouse ...