Hong Kong authorities are investigating a human reproductive medical centre after it allegedly sent the wrong embryo ...

New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

Hospital admissions for miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy have increased in England in recent years, according to research ...

A recent study revealed the exact age in which a woman’s chances of successfully undergoing fertility treatment declines ...

The Noronha skink arrived on the island millions of years ago from Africa, likely on floating masses of vegetation carried by ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Taxidermied, locked behind plexiglass and spinning slowly on a wooden dais in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, UK, the world’s most famous ewe remains a public spectacle three decades ...

Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

University of Minnesota scientists used chemical ingredients in a lab to create a synthetic cell with most of the hallmarks of life. What does that mean?