Researchers previously believed space radiation would destroy our DNA, making breeding impossible. See more stories on Insider's business page. Human reproduction will be possible on Mars because ...

For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

You'd think we'd know everything there is to know about sexual reproduction. But as it turns out, there are still quite a few ...

With a rising focus on interplanetary colonisation as a safeguard against existential threats, scientists are investigating whether humans can reproduce in space. While significant strides have been ...

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is increasingly being used to facilitate conception in both clinical and veterinary medicine. Infertility rates are on the rise amongst the global human ...

In the beginning, no one really understood how babies were made. Thinkers puzzled for millennia about how life arose from one generation to the next. But not until the 17th century did scientists ...

To believe in the sanctity of life is to deny biomedical fact. Human reproduction is fundamentally flawed and grossly inefficient. Conceptional life is generally unsustainable, living on borrowed time ...