Larger clinical trials are underway to evaluate the efficacy of STAR in broader patient populations, the team added.

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For decades, conversations around fertility and reproductive timelines have revolved almost exclusively around a woman’s “biological clock.” However, a growing body of research is reframing this ...

While men may be able to have children much later than women, doing so could come with an increased risk of inherited disease for their children. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute have ...

Harmful genetic changes in sperm become substantially more common as men age because some are actively favored during sperm production, new research has revealed. The findings create new possibilities ...

Scientists said Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilized them with sperm in the lab for the first time—a breakthrough that is hoped to one day let infertile people have ...

In a controversial step that raises the possibility of a new kind of infertility treatment, scientists report that they have produced functional human eggs in the lab that were able to be fertilized ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance that could expand possibilities for fertility treatment, according to new research. The ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have accomplished a unique proof of concept to treat infertility by turning skin cells into eggs capable of producing early human embryos. The ...

More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only for increased access to affordable, high-quality fertility care for those ...

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. Japanese regulators just quietly gave researchers there a historic OK to generate ...

Despite a campaign promise and executive order, the Trump administration has not released plans to expand IVF coverage and access. Trump's executive order directed policy advisers to recommend ways to ...