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Dr. Lucy L. Brown, a neuroscientist and professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine who has studied the neural basis ...

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For the first time, scientists have created fertilizable human eggs from skin cells—an advance that the researchers say could pave the way for new infertility treatments, though the technology remains ...

In the quest to create better options for couples facing infertility, scientists have been racing to create eggs and sperm in a laboratory dish. A study published Tuesday in Nature Communications from ...