When you seek the help of a fertility specialist to conceive, your first step is to undergo diagnostic tests to understand your likelihood of success. This is followed by a comprehensive consultation ...

Most of the eggs fertilized in the study didn't make it to the blastocyst stage, and in fact, only divided enough times to produce four to eight cells overall. The "modest" blastocyst development rate ...

The sparks of metal atoms may protect against double fertilization. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Whether you're a frog or a ...

Researchers have created human embryos by taking nuclei from ordinary skin cells, placing them into donated eggs, and ...

Researchers have succeeded in making human skin cells behave like egg cells, though the resulting fertilized embryos run them ...

Researchers have characterized, in exacting detail, the rapid series of events that transform a single fertilized cell into a living, complex being. The work not only has enabled the team to explore ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells ...

A test deployed in many fertility clinics to assess the viability of embryos for use in IVF is likely to overestimate the ...

A court decision in a wrongful-death case in Alabama last month drew a spotlight to in vitro fertilization, an increasingly popular method of conceiving babies for the infertile. In vitro — Latin for ...

Researchers have developed a method for culturing fertilized chick eggs without their shells. The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, allowing for real-time ...

Scientists have long known that the social insects in the order Hymenoptera–which includes ants, bees, and wasps–have an unusual mechanism for sex determination: Unfertilized eggs develop into males, ...