The fact that human conception occurs when the sperm enters the ovum is discovered by physician Martin Berry. This changes the way the world sees human reproduction. While people used to believe that ...

Scientists are working to create human eggs in a laboratory dish, but the process is proving to be more challenging than ...

In the mid-1980s Canadian feminist academics and women’s health organizations identified the need to regulate the field of reproductive and genetic technologies. In 1987, the Canadian Coalition for a ...

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 ...

Michael Hart and his colleague Daryn Stover sifted through mounds of data going back over a million years in their quest to find out whether humans carry the same allele differences as sea stars. Why?

Download this document [PDF - 386 KB]. The law: In 2004, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act) came into force. The Act permits surrogacy, egg and sperm donation, within an altruistic ...

Scientists have detected microplastics — the tiny and pervasive fragments now found in our seas, drinking water, food and, increasingly, living tissue — in human semen and follicular fluid, according ...