A federal politician is finally making a serious attempt to address the shortcomings of Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Act. While the act was intended to protect those who participate in ...

Although the federal government passed a law in 2004 that tackled a wide swath of the socially and ethically controversial issues surrounding reproduction, covering everything from human cloning to ...

A study based on a review of genetic and health information from more than 276,000 people finds strong support for a decades-old evolutionary theory that sought to explain aging and senescence. A ...

Check your understanding of gamete production, fertilisation and the hormonal control of reproduction with this Higher Human Biology quiz.

In the mid-1980s Canadian feminist academics and women’s health organizations identified the need to regulate the field of reproductive and genetic technologies. In 1987, the Canadian Coalition for a ...

Michael Hart and his colleague Daryn Stover sifted through mounds of data going back over a million years in their quest to find out whether humans carry the same allele differences as sea stars. Why?