A new report provides an overview of the legal, ethical, and policy questions raised by in vitro gametogenesis (IVG)—the creation of lab-grown eggs and sperm. Two University of Sheffield academics, ...

Scientists in Japan are at the forefront of one the most controversial areas of biomedical research: creating sperm and eggs in the laboratory from practically any cell in the body. Well, it's not ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have meticulously examined the gametogenesis of budding yeast, a process involving meiosis and spore formation, using live imaging techniques. Their findings ...

Until recently, the only way to make eggs or sperm was the old-fashioned way: in the ovaries and testes. In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to use cells from almost any part of the body ...

In vitro gametogenesis (IVG) holds much potential for same-sex couples and women of a more advanced age struggling with infertility, but the question is whether we’re quite there yet. On the hope that ...

Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By the time he moved across the country to do a PhD in George Church’s lab at Harvard, ...

It may soon be possible to coax human skin cells into becoming functional eggs and sperm using a technique known as "in vitro gametogenesis." This involves the creation (genesis) of eggs and sperm ...

Since Louise Brown, the first IVF baby in the world, was born in 1978, millions of infertile couples have been able to become parents. In past decades, the field of reproductive medicine has witnessed ...

Infertility affects approximately 1 in 6 people in their lifetime worldwide according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Infertility - as defined by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine ...