Artificial wombs, devices that can gestate human embryos outside the body, have shifted from speculative fiction to the brink ...

Over the past decade, I have made some bold predictions about the future of sex. One that’s been easy is that people will still be having sex for years to come, but for different reasons: they simply ...

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in a landmark case concerning the legal motherhood of a child born through a surrogacy arrangement. While the High Court seemed willing to ...

The world’s first baby conceived through an AI-assisted IVF process marks a historic leap in fertility science. Using robotic ...

A week after getting outline approval from Cabinet, Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has put some flesh on the bones of his proposals for legislation on assisted human reproduction but many questions ...

We have two contradictory expectations about human biology and behaviour. Given our primate and mammalian ancestry, we must be pretty similar to chimps, monkeys, and even rats. But given our big ...

The injunction to know yourself is an ancient one. Oedipus the King, a 2½-millennium-old play, was about the eternal human drive to seek the truth of oneself at all costs. It was the story of an ...

Scientists in Japan say they have succeeded in breeding mice with two fathers, using eggs originating from male cells. While the scientific breakthrough could pave the way for new fertility treatments ...

He has spoken to about 42,000 children in schools throughout the UK in 2016 alone. He has written 15 or 16 books for children (he's not sure which it is). As well as being a prolific author and ...

Researchers have uncovered how successful chromosome segregation during sexual reproduction is achieved in plants. The ...