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Every egg cell and sperm cell depends on meiosis, a tightly choreographed process in which chromosomes find their partners, ...

A new Frontiers review argues that no human has ever conceived in space and that making babies beyond Earth may require ...

A new review highlights how loss of imprinting drives tumour growth and why emerging single-cell, spatial, and long-read ...

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Stem cell-derived sperm have been a long-pursued goal. Now researchers have produced spermatogonia-like cells that resemble those found in the testes after birth.

The freshwater polyp Hydra oligactis is essentially immortal and reproduces asexually by cloning itself. Except when it gets too cold: then the animal switches to sexual reproduction, begins to age, ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann for their discoveries underpinning the field of optogenetics, the ability to control cells ...

Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. She previously worked at "60 Minutes," CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program. A troubling warning from a former ...

After watching a space documentary, reproductive biologist Nicole McPherson got a curious question from her husband on their drive to work: “Do you think humans could reproduce in space?” “I ...

In the fast-growing field of data annotation, workers in a small city in south India train A.I. to improve how it performs tasks traditionally done by people. By Jeremy W. Peters and Hari Kumar ...

Since the flesh-eating screwworm fly reinvaded Mexico in 2024, human cases of the voracious parasite have been mounting. According to a July surveillance report from Mexico’s Ministry of Health, there ...