Nearly every cell in your body depends on mitochondria to survive and function properly. Mitochondria earned the nickname ...

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

Scientists have managed to create what have been referred to as "living robots"—tiny organisms that are able to make copies of themselves—and a video shows how the process works. The living robots, ...

Investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found a subpopulation of hematopoietic stem cells, the source of all blood and immune system cells, that reproduce much more slowly than ...

BOSTON, Mass. (CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Apparently, robots can reproduce. It's happening at a lab near Boston, Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, scientists have created living machines. They are cells ...

Scientists said Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilized them with sperm in the lab for the first ...

Human skin cells have been used to produce fertilizable eggs in a proof-of-concept study that heralds a potential new ...

An innovative use of skin cells could provide a route for gay couples or women with fertility problems to have children they ...

Scientists are working to create human eggs in a laboratory dish, but the process is proving to be more challenging than ...

The robots are alive, and now they can reproduce. That’s not a sequel to “The Terminator.” It’s the result of new research showing that microscopic life-forms made of frogs’ stem cells can ...