Six helicopters will drop 550 tons of poison on this island: Why a project is spending $10 million on this exercise

Marion Island faces a massive mouse eradication effort using helicopters and poison. This project aims to protect native ...

A Conservative Role Model for Ending the Fertility Crisis

Emma Waters, pregnant with her third child, is crafting policy to encourage early parenthood. Some think she is pushing an ...

IVF embryo mix-up undisclosed for weeks sparks calls for 24-hour reporting rule

Lawmaker Chan Hoi-yan warns mix-up could have led to abnormal embryo implantation, risking miscarriage or developmental ...

Island life changed how Brazil’s Noronha skink reproduces, but the lizard’s strategy might be failing in a rapidly evolving world

The Noronha skink arrived on the island millions of years ago from Africa, likely on floating masses of vegetation carried by ...

Study reveals how the uterine microbiome may impact pregnancy success

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have uncovered new evidence that the communities of bacteria living in the uterus may ...
thenewhumanitarian

Liberia’s abortion law reform: A new front in the global culture wars

Editor’s note: The following article is part of a series of reports exploring the influence of the US Christian nationalist movement on both human rights and sexual and reproductive health access in ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...
Forbes

Why Don’t Humans Have A Mating Season? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired ...
Phys.org

Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health beyond the bounds of planet Earth is no longer theoretical but now ...
Wired

A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to ...
NPR

Scientists create human eggs in the lab, using skin cells

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 ...
Newsweek

Breakthrough As Human Eggs Made From Skin Cells

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For the first time, scientists have created fertilizable human eggs ...