Reproduction

Scientists have created eggs using the cells of male mice for the first time, leading to the birth of seven mice with two fathers, according to research on March 15 hailed as "revolutionary."

The first successful in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in Slovenia was performed 40 years ago and today about a thousand babies born every year in the country are conceived outside the body. Slovenia is considered to be a global leader in the field.

Media personality and hotel heiress Paris Hilton announced on Jan. 24 that she and husband Carter Reum had welcomed their first child.

Hilton posted a photo on Instagram of what appeared to be her newborn baby grasping her thumb.

"You are already loved beyond words," Hilton wrote with a blue heart emoji.

In the Tissue Culture Laboratory established in the northern province of Ordu, six plants that were difficult to access have been cloned, yielding 40,000 saplings.

Tissue samples are taken from plants with high economic yield, and tissue fragments are sterilized.

Currently, facilities referred to as “frozen zoos” are used to store samples of animal sperm, eggs and other tissues at cryogenic temperatures

According to a new study by a researcher at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath contends that 'selfish chromosomes' are to blame for the early demise of the majority of human embryos. The discovery explains why human embryos frequently don't survive while fish embryos do not have repercussions for the management of infertility.

"In the state hospital, we often had to wait half a day for exams; in winter, we were queuing up outside, in the freezing cold," she shudders. "I had to face doctors who went through the same routine over and over again, without taking the time to find out why I can't conceive.

A study in Denmark showed men have better sperm if they had 8 hours of sleep

"Infertility is constantly rising, globally and in Croatia. It is estimated that in 10 years about 30% of couples in most of the world will be infertile," Večernji List daily quoted gynaecologist Velimir Šimunić, a human reproduction subspecialist and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) pioneer at a Zagreb women's hospital, as saying.

She had come to Athens in her teens and found a scene to suit her tastes in scruffy-but-trendy Gazi district. She styled herself as a punk and, with her cropped hair and soft features, could have passed for a beautiful boy playing at being a girl, or vice versa. As a kid, growing up in Bulgaria, she had a thing for toy soldiers.