About 100,000 babies were born through in vitro fertilization in 2024, according to the most recent U.S. data. But IVF ...

Dr Manika Khanna explains how AI is quietly changing IVF — making sperm and embryo selection more precise. Here is her take ...

A new study has found an association between poor air quality and “lower success rates with an embryo transfer” ...

The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across ...

A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology, working with one colleague from The Francis Crick Institute and another from the University of Cambridge, both in the U.K., has ...

Every fertility clinic should have clearly documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) covering every stage of IVF treatment.

The major objection to the use of embryonic stem cells for scientific research seems overcome by the promising development of a way to extract cells and propagate stem cell lines without killing the ...

For many people who have been through IVF, the option to donate or destroy unused embryos doesn’t feel right. But there is ...

There are some genes that are only activated in the very first days of an embryo's existence. Once they have accomplished their task, they are shut down forever, unlike most of our genes, which remain ...