A research team from Japan says it has developed a new egg maturation technique that may improve in vitro fertilization (IVF) ...

Fertility agencies offering embryo selection for IVF and surrogacy have been accused of promoting eugenics and misleading ...

Implantation is the initial step in pregnancy, where the embryo attaches to and enters the endometrium, the inner tissue layer of the uterus. During this process, the cells of the endometrium ...

It is not certain that the embryo - grown from skin cells from ... to give details of the woman's origin or the date of the implantation, but confirmed the process did not take place in the ...

The rate of triplet births and births of a higher order — like quadruplets, sextuplets and octuplets — dropped 62% in the US ...

Researchers at Monash University have developed a light-emitting microchip that can safely measure the energy produced by ...

Many embryos created in IVF will not make it to a live birth because they won't continue to grow, or they'll fail to implant into the uterus and continue as a pregnancy, for example. Early ...

Mature egg cells, or oocytes, are essential for fertilization in assisted reproductive technologies. However, some 'denuded' ...

IVF takes eggs removed from the ovaries, fertilizes them with sperm to create an embryo, and implants that embryo into the mother's uterus. In vitro fertilization may also be an option for people ...

would ban cloned embryos from being implanted into wombs but does not ban therapeutic cloning using cell nuclear replacement for research - the technique used by the American firm and to produce ...