Inside what look like oversized ziplock bags strewn with tubes of blood and fluid, eight fetal lambs continued to develop — much like they would have inside their mothers. Over four weeks, their...

BPA is a chemical that is used in a variety of consumer products, such as food storage containers and water bottles. In previous studies, researchers determined that BPA can disrupt sexual function...

Spanish scientist Sergi Santos designed silicone sex dolls with wigs and artificial brains that he thinks could help combat sex trafficking.

Chinese scientists have created healthy baby mice with two mothers and no father, pushing back the barriers to same-sex reproduction in humans.Mice that had two fathers were also born but survived for

When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global outcry and pleas from scientists not to make a baby using the technology, at least for the...

An elusive medical advance might finally be within grasp, one that could make some couples’ sex lives a lot more convenient. This week, researchers officially kicked off the first wide-scale clinical...

The live birth of a baby girl in São Paulo is a medical advance that may change the definition of motherhood, says science writer Philip Ball

The following is a lightly adapted extract from Will Storr’s latest book Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us, Picador (June 15, 2017), 416 pages. Imagine that it

The world's first baby, born using a womb from a dead woman, took place in Brazil in 2017

Another male pill passes human safety tests - but it won't be widely available any time soon, experts say.

Synthetic biology has only just begun, says Oliver Morton

After 10 years of research, co-founders Polina Lishko and Nadja Mannowetz are dubbing...

Chinese scientists have “gene hacked” a group of monkeys to make them smarter — in an experiment branded “reckless” by experts. The experiment involved exposing monkeys

This could be a crucial year for the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR as researchers start testing it in patients to treat diseases such as cancer, blindness and sickle cell disease.

Magnetic stimulation is helping some people with depression—but the $12,000 treatment is also being unleashed in untested ways.

‘If freed from the need to be “born” in the normal way, we might open the way for a new evolutionary trajectory.'

Brain prostheses for the computer in your skull.