Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

There are also concerns about the legal and moral status of embryos. Many countries currently prohibit growing a human embryo ...

Over the past decade, I have made some bold predictions about the future of sex. One that’s been easy is that people will still be having sex for years to come, but for different reasons: they simply ...

Reproduction permanently alters females' bones in ways not previously known, a team of anthropologists has found. Its discovery, based on an analysis of primates, sheds new light on how giving birth ...

Nearly every cell in your body depends on mitochondria to survive and function properly. Mitochondria provide 90% of our bodies' energy, but less well-known are their roles in cellular signaling and ...

Michal Raucher’s research shows ways strictly religious women carve out an independent space around pregnancy and childbirth. Outsiders who see the parade of strollers in Jerusalem’s charedi, or ultra ...

Coral reefs host a quarter of all sea species, but climate change, overfishing, and pollution could drive these ecosystems to extinction within a matter of decades. Marine biologists have been racing ...