It's easy to lose sight of this among lights, carols and presents, but Christmas actually celebrates a birthday. In Luke 1, an angel visited Mary to inform her that she has "found favor with God. You ...

A group of researchers was able to successfully engineer "virgin birth" in fruit flies. Asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis, is common in nature, but had never been engineered. The research ...

For the first time, scientists have induced facultative parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction, in an animal that usually reproduces sexually. An estimated 76 percent of fruit flies can ...

The common fruit fly normally needs a mate to reproduce. But scientists tinkering with its genes found the ones that can induce parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. For the first time, scientists ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to induce virgin birth in an animal that usually reproduces sexually: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Once induced in this fruit fly, this ability is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'The Nativity,' circa 1406-10, by Lorenzo Monaco Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Every year on Christmas, ...

Scientists have just induced the first virgin birth. A recent paper detailed how researchers were able to find a genetic trigger in fruit flies for virgin birth, also known as parthenogenesis. This ...

Scientists have pinpointed a genetic cause for virgin birth for the first time, and once switched on the ability is passed down through generations of females. For the first time, scientists have ...