Parthenogenesis -- a natural form of asexual reproduction -- is something that's common amongst plant species, insects, amphibians and many other life forms. Meaning "virgin creation" in Greek, it ...

How Transformers are born isn’t just a factory setting; it’s a full-blown cosmic origin story dressed in chrome.

Mice have been cloned by nuclear transfer into enucleated oocytes1,2,3, and here we describe the reiterative cloning of mice to four and six generations in two independent lines. Successive ...

Mice born of two dads reveal hidden details of mammalian reproduction by Justin Jackson, Phys.org edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Plant reproduction articles from across Nature Portfolio Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means.