For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

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 ...

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 ...

You'd think we'd know everything there is to know about sexual reproduction. But as it turns out, there are still quite a few ...

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 ...

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 ...

A comparison of seven nonhuman primate species has found both similarities and differences among the effects of age on female reproduction. Reproductive senescence has two components. One is fertility ...

Washington, DC, December 9, 2002 -Americans are both hopeful and fearful about the rapidly advancing power of scientists to manipulate human reproduction, according to a new survey released today by ...

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The human rights framework is a powerful and successful tool for advancing a progressive agenda for women’s health and rights across the globe. “This is an issue of human rights, whether women can ...