human reproduction

In a scientific first, researchers from the US and the UK have taken early-stage human egg cells and grown them to…

Wrap your head around this one: On November 25, 2017 a healthy baby girl was born to a 26-year-old mother in…

The microscopic processes involved in human fertilization are a difficult thing to convey visually, but a group of…

Something weird is going on with human sperm production. For decades, scientists have warned that sperm counts are…

A popular fertility treatment introduced in the early 1990s has been linked to low sperm counts in men born from the…

Unintended pregnancies are at a 30 year low in the United States. Experts say the welcome downtrend is mostly…

It’s well established that older men are more likely to pass on a genetic disorder to their offspring, but we’re…

Some men produce sperm that are poor swimmers, a major cause of infertility. To help, researchers from Germany have…

Researchers in Germany have have grown the innermost layer of human fallopian tubes in a lab. The new technique is…

In a medical first, a woman has given birth to a healthy baby boy from a transplant of her own frozen ovarian tissue…

Geneticist Aarathi Prasad recently argued that menopause is on the cusp of extinction — and that women will soon be…

In vitro fertilization was developed well over thirty years ago, but its far reaching potential for helping couples…

It's been a half-century since the advent of a reliable birth control option for women, and we've developed…

Scientists have successfully sequenced a baby's entire genome while it was still in the womb — and without…

Psychopaths make up an astounding 1 to 2 percent of the general population and occupy virtually every niche in…