Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health ...
America Magazine

Scientists created a human embryo without sperm or an egg. We should be disgusted—and worried.

(RNS) — Scientists have created a human embryo without the use of sperm or an egg — a true test-tube baby. Such embryos cannot (yet) develop into full-grown human beings. Even if transplanted into a ...

We’re Nowhere Near Ready to Make Babies in Space, Experts Warn

Radiation and microgravity are two of the greatest hazards to astronauts’ reproductive health. “Space radiation can damage ...
WGBH

Harvard researchers are working on growing human eggs in a lab

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2013, file photo, an in vitro fertilization embryologist works on a petri dish at a fertility clinic in London. Tens of thousands of people undergo in vitro fertilization every ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See the First 3D Images of a Human Embryo Implanting, Shedding Light on the Crucial but Little-Known Process

A human embryo embeds itself into a fake uterus created by researchers. Screenshot from an Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia video Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an ...
The New Yorker

The Future of Fertility

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 ...
NPR

Scientists create human eggs in the lab, using skin cells

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...