Four teams have coaxed human stem cells to organize themselves into embryo-like forms. The advance could shed light on fertility. By Carl Zimmer In its first week, a fertilized human egg develops into ...

Despite the fact that we all start out as an egg cell in one of our mother's ovaries, these human reproductive organs are surprisingly under-studied. Scientists have been working on creating in vitro ...

Harvard researchers have engineered mice that can menstruate — a key step in better under standing menstrual biology. Octavia Liku/ Staffwriter At last, the women of Donner House can begin to ...

Formation of the energy-producing machinery in the proximal tubule of the nephron is an essential step in differentiation. The authors show that mitochondrial localization depends on LRRK2, the ...

We all know how human reproduction works: sperm meets egg, fertilized egg kicks off its journey, transforms into a human embryo, then becomes a fetus and ultimately a baby. To be clear, the teams did ...

The discovery raises significant concerns for human reproductive health. Researchers issue warning about overlooked threat to male reproductive system: 'Underlying toxicity mechanisms' first appeared ...

Recently, scientists have reviewed the existing literature to understand how space travel, space radiation, and microgravity affect human reproductive functions. This review was published in Npj ...