Scientists have finally recreated the initial steps of HIV infection in a test tube, offering an incredibly zoomed-in view of the virus in action. The amazing images show a cone-shaped shell of ...

Science Talk October 18, 2006 -- Test-Tube Babies; Old-Time Radio; What's in a Name? Welcome to Science Talk the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting October 18th. I am ...

It is designed to function in a test tube. Kotov, principal investigator, is an author of a paper about the research currently published online in the journal Biomaterials. Joan Nichols, professor ...

NORMAN, Okla. — Since humanity missed the big moment the first time around, biologists trying to understand the origins of complex life have coaxed single-celled microbes to evolve into multicellular ...

The notion that a baby’s beginnings could transpire in a petri dish seems unremarkable today. But not even 50 years ago, researchers’ efforts to devise technologies to allow infertile couples to have ...

Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of six features on the science of food, running daily from March 30 through April 6, 2009. UTRECHT, the Netherlands—Just down the hall from a frozen vat ...

When I first visited a fertility doctor because of pregnancy problems, I had no idea that the in vitro fertilization, or IVF, he was suggesting to help me was actually the “test-tube baby” technique ...