An experimental treatment significantly improves the quality of human eggs and increases the proportion that can be used for ...

Many state legislatures are seriously considering human embryos at the earliest stages of development for legal personhood. Total abortion bans that consider humans to have full rights from the moment ...

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...

This workshop will explore the in vitro derivation of human gametes (eggs and sperm) from stem cells. Sessions will consider scientific and clinical goals motivating research in this field, technical ...

When sperm meets egg, the start of life is not quiet. Under a special microscope, researchers have watched a tiny light show at fertilization. They see a microscopic flash at fertilization, a burst of ...

Moira Gleason is a Daily Signal journalism intern. When Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at lowering costs for and reducing barriers to in vitro fertilization last month, that renewed the ...

A study finds that brief immune stress in male mice can leave lasting metabolic and behavioral effects in offspring through ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. As an evolutionary biologist whose career ...