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 ...

The seat of human life, a reproductive system that includes the uterus, ovaries, cervix, vagina and vulva, is often shrouded in mystery, subjected to regulation, or seen as an anchor for social and ...

Upon concluding its 86th Plenary Assembly, Spain’s Catholic Bishops’ Conference issued a powerful document condemning a new law on assisted human reproduction that promotes cloning and genetic ...

Scientists have detected microplastics — the tiny and pervasive fragments now found in our seas, drinking water, food and, increasingly, living tissue — in human semen and follicular fluid, according ...

Scientists might soon be able to create eggs and sperm from skin and blood cells. What will that mean? The way we make babies could be about to change. Maybe. An embryo forms when sperm meets egg. But ...

Artificial human reproduction appears to be on the horizon with Japanese scientists' claim to have created immature human eggs from stem cells, but the technique could result in power that would cross ...

A new book suggests that within just 20 to 40 years, most human reproduction will take place in the lab, rather than the bedroom. Hank Greely, a Stanford professor who teaches law and genetics, writes ...

The following is an excerpt from The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction by Henry T. Greely. This is a book about the future of our species, about the likely development of revolutionary ...

Science fiction writers have imagined just about every aspect of life in some far-off future — including how humans will reproduce. And usually, their visions have included a backlash against those ...

Sixty years ago, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Joshua Lederberg shocked the world with the first serious scientific paper detailing the feasibility of human cloning. Four decades later, a sheep named ...