Society

New development lets scientists “study human development in a dish"

IVF research could lead to improved success rates

New research raises the unsettling possibility that some vegetative patients may actually be awake and aware

Stem cells may hold the key to a radical advance in infertility treatment

A father of five girls, his daughters were ‘kind of his boys, too.’ On the farm, he had no trouble finding work for idle hands.

Scientists are already able to replace many worn-out or missing body parts with new ones. But two-thirds of a person?

Jesse Brown on the Conservative government’s "pick and pay" pledge

Science advances in wearable tech and health

How nanobots will help the immune system, and why we’ll be much smarter, thanks to machines

The toy craze of the moment is ... a loom?