Gamete donation refers to using someone else’s sperm, eggs or embryos to help an intended parent conceive a child. (Envato Elements pic) In the Netflix documentary “Our Father”, a top United States ...

Scientists from Nagoya University, Yokohama City University and Chubu University have developed a system which enables the live imaging of the formation of the female gamete in plants. In flowering ...

The surrogacy using donor gamete is allowed subject to the condition that the child to be born through surrogacy must have at least one gamete from the intending couple, it stated. The surrogacy using ...

The backfire effect refers to a psychological phenomenon in which presenting new or contradictory information to individuals with pre-existing beliefs leads them to dig in on their existing beliefs.

When the female gametes in plants become fertilized, a signal from the sperm activates cell division, leading to the formation of new plant seeds. This activation can also be deliberately triggered ...

Research on the manufacture of egg-like and sperm-like cells for the purpose of producing laboratory-crafted human children is proceeding rapidly. The objective is to turn ordinary body cells of ...

Although it’s of vital importance that parents and donors be adequately counseled before using a donor or donating, all too often, research demonstrates this is not the case. One 2013 published study ...