Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.

Scientists created the first synthetic cell from scratch that grows and replicates, offering hope for future cancer ...

A California biotech says it has created early-stage human egg cells from stem cells using lab-grown ovarian tissue. The ...

Conception, a California-based biotechnology start-up claims that it has found a way to turn stem cells into human egg cells.

US-based Conception said more work is needed to grow the eggs to full maturity, but called the achievement a 'major ...

For all of human history, reproduction has relied on a simple biological formula. Sperm meets egg. They fuse, they divide, and nine months later, a baby arrives. Now, scientists are taking control of ...

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Most people today have a little Neanderthal DNA sprinkled through their genome. These genomic signals are the telltale signs that overlapping populations of ancient anatomically modern humans and ...

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...

Humans&, a startup with a philosophy that AI should empower people rather than replace them, has raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation, reports The New York Times. Investors ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...