The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

Recent research highlights that for fertility and aging, the egg may be the leading lady, but she needs her supporting cast.

A new Clinical Practice Guideline published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Canada (JOGC) introduces new recommendations from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada ...

When roundworms stop reproducing, they can still move and function normally but lose their ability to detect certain food ...

Health experts say the proposed Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill could close gaps by enforcing genetic screening, donor ...

Michelle Spear does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

In 18th century Vienna, the Hungarian engineer and debutant Wolfgang von Kempelen shocked court patrons with a bizarre contraption: a great mechanical box which could seemingly play and even win chess ...

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have created fertilizable human eggs from skin cells—an advance that the researchers say could pave the way for new infertility treatments, though the technology remains ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...