In vitro fertilization is a process where scientists join a sperm and and egg outside of the female’s body in a controlled environment to fertilize the egg and create an embryo, which is then inserted ...

POWELL, OH (WCMH) — The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has announced the birth of two cheetah cubs born through in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer into a surrogate mother in a groundbreaking ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - For the first time, a litter of puppies was born by in vitro fertilization, thanks to work by Cornell University researchers. The breakthrough, described in a study to be published ...

In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed—even detachable. They're one of the most diverse structures ...

One of the fundamental rules of inheritance states that different alleles (gene copies) of a trait, such as sex, are ...

James Watson, Nobel-Prize-winning co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, said it would lead to “all sorts of bad scenarios.” But not just “bad.” He stated unequivocally that “all hell will break loose ...

Recently, Emma Lavaut and her colleagues from Sorbonne University and Universidad Austral de Chile found that a species of red seaweed, Gracilaria gracilis, uses the isopod crustacean Idotea balthica ...

Living organisms have been colonizing the planet for nearly four billion years. They’ve taken on countless forms through assorted evolutionary and adaptive mechanisms to survive in environments where ...