Learn how the Amazon molly, an all-female fish that reproduces asexually, uses gene conversion to maintain healthy DNA and ...

University of Missouri researchers have shown how an all-female fish species called the Amazon molly defies the long-held ...

In 2016, two Japanese reproductive biologists, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Mitinori Saitou, made an announcement in the journal Nature that read like a science-fiction novel. The researchers had taken skin ...

Researchers are inching closer to mass-producing eggs and sperm in the lab from ordinary human cells. The technique could provide new ways to treat infertility but also open a Pandora's box. We are ...

The natural world continues to surprise us, and the most recent case, involving a snake named Ronaldo, has once again caught ...

Biologists like to say that reproduction is the ultimate investment, a costly gamble that shapes everything from lifespan to behavior. Yet a small shark patrolling shallow reefs has just upended that ...

For centuries, eels have kept one of nature’s most stubborn secrets. Scientists have chased answers through ancient folklore, dead ends in early experiments, and decades of missing evidence. Even with ...

You might think flowers don’t have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can’t move. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study ...

Advances in science and technology, coupled with modern medicine, has impacted the way in which we look at life. Reproduction is not an exception. It is no secret that the most prolific innovator on ...

While space agencies are making significant preparations for long-term missions to the Moon and Mars, a fundamental human ...