Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services released a draft of its latest strategic plan, which will guide the agency from 2018 to 2022. Near the top of the document, the agency presents ...

Medical professionals and fertility clinics are prohibited, under penalty of law, from experimenting on a prospective parent(s) human reproductive material, including sperm, ovum, or embryo at any ...

The lack of sexology, fertility, and reproduction research in space leaves questions unanswered on whether humans could safely have babies away from Earth. Credit: John Lamb via Getty Images ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Researchers produced the immature egg cells (seen in pink) out of stem cells created using human blood Saitou Labs A team of Japanese researchers has successfully created oogonia, or primitive ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...