New MAIA protein, named after the Greek goddess of motherhood, helps to draw the sperm into the egg cytoplasm for completion of fertilisation Infertility is unexplained in more than half of people who ...

Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a 'fairy tale,' rooted in ...

On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the 2023 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem ...

A research team from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has developed the world's first artificial intelligence (AI) model ...

Concerned by the speed of research, policymakers are looking for alternative ways to establish rules on genome editing and other technologies. Outside the Third International Summit on Human Genome ...

Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa yesterday said Lagos deserved a law on surrogacy, human fertilisation and other related areas. He spoke during a stakeholders’ meeting on “A Bill ...