“Every miscarriage is heartbreaking,” lead researcher Harmut Cuny, a senior postdoctoral scientist with the Victor Chang ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

Imagine if everyone treated fertility the way they do heart health: checking it regularly, interpreting data early and taking ...

Research conducted by British scientists on zebrafish could lead to significant changes in current artificial insemination techniques used in humans. These researchers were able to ...

Overall, sexual minority people had a 7% higher risk of requiring a Cesarean delivery, researchers report in the February ...

In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the ...

Some plants lack both green pigments and sexual reproduction, yet these unusual traits reveal important insights into what defines plant life. A new ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to ...

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 ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...