Before an embryo can use its own genes, it relies on materials that have been packed into the egg. This is a precarious phase. In mammals, the fertilized egg divides several times before activating ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance that could expand possibilities for fertility treatment, according to new research. The ...

Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major breakthrough for infertility research. Using a newly developed technique to ...

Professor Rong LI (left) and Dr WANG Haiyang (right) together with their team from the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the NUS Bia-Echo Asia Centre for ...