Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By the time he moved across the country to do a PhD in George Church’s lab at Harvard, ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells behave like egg cells—a technique that could change the course of the future of ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

WASHINGTON - As humankind moves toward the goal of establishing a long-term presence on the moon and Mars, the question of ...

As a quartet of astronauts make their way to the far side of the Moon, far-fetched notions of human colonies on the satellite or even Mars - a three-year return trip - are again getting an airing.

The ability to create egg cells from human skin represents one of the most extraordinary frontiers in reproductive science. Researchers are exploring how to reprogramme ordinary body cells into viable ...

This image shows a human egg after its original DNA has been replaced with DNA from an adult skin cell. (Mitalipov laboratory) Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells ...