(Reuters) -The Southern Baptist Convention voted Wednesday to condemn the use of in vitro fertilization and commend congregants who use alternative fertility therapies or adopt frozen embryos. In ...

A deeply personal and emotionally complex legal battle has come to an end for a divorced Michigan couple, as the state Supreme Court declined to hear a dispute over a frozen embryo created during ...

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 ...

In the world of in-vitro fertilization (IVF), the journey to parenthood can be complex and emotionally charged. As more couples turn to assisted reproductive technologies, the stakes have never been ...

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights into why miscarriages occur and how they can be prevented.

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

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 ...

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