When it comes down to it, in vitro fertilization has two ingredients: a sperm and an egg. But it isn’t quite as easy as “one plus one equals embryo,” as there are several points in the process where ...

Embryologists typically assess an IVF embryo's quality by examining it under a microscope. If it looks relatively normal but there are reasons to suspect possible problems, such as in cases of ...

Former Boston Globe writer Elizabeth Carr has been in the spotlight more than once since her birth 42 years ago. Why? Because Elizabeth is the United States’ first baby born through the in vitro ...

FILE - Lab staff use a microscope stand and articulated hand controls to extract cells from 1-7 day old embryos, shown on the monitor at right, that are then checked for viability at the Aspire ...

The first-ever 3D model of testicles, made using mouse cells, could improve our understanding of sex development disorders and male infertility. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

After 18 years of infertility, a couple could finally have a baby thanks to artificial intelligence. The father had a rare condition that left him with almost no detectable sperm. Then fertility ...

In recent months, Conceivable Life Sciences says it became the first company in the world to fertilize an egg with the push of a button.

Drs. Rizwan Malik, Brijinder Minhas, Natalia Schlabritz-Lutsevich and Odessa Regional Medical Center have joined forces to help infertile couples and individuals. Minhas said there is a 17 percent ...

The soil roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has just 959 cells and a body that is mostly gut and reproductive organs. Yet its reproduction is similar enough to ours that scientists like Francis McNally ...