Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is increasingly being used to facilitate conception in both clinical and veterinary medicine. Infertility rates are on the rise amongst the global human ...

In 2016, two Japanese reproductive biologists, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Mitinori Saitou, made an announcement in the journal Nature that read like a science-fiction novel. The researchers had taken skin ...

Human reproduction requires both male and female gametes. Gametes are special sex cells that contain the genetic information necessary to create a new life. Men produce millions of gametes called ...

Artificial wombs, devices that can gestate human embryos outside the body, have shifted from speculative fiction to the brink ...

For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

Every schoolchild learns that vitamin D is essential for proper bone development. Deficiency leads to rickets, a classical childhood affliction with soft, deformed bones resulting in bowed legs. The ...