It has also become a big driver in the number of older single mothers in the U.S. at a time when the country's overall birth ...

Older mothers could have the same chances of conceiving during fertility treatment as young women thanks to a new drug that ...

Exclusive: Research suggests supplementing eggs with a key protein reduces age-related defects, raising hopes of improved IVF for older women ...

Alabama lawmakers, reacting to public outcry over the state Supreme Court's decision that embryos created by in vitro fertilization are legally the same as children, passed a law on March 7 designed ...

Scientists may have just made a breakthrough in the field of in vitro fertilization (IVF)—one that could sidestep a ...

Now, scientists at McGill University may have found a way to ease that burden. They’ve developed a light-activated ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...

Human eggs have been "rejuvenated" for the first time, an advance scientists say could revolutionise IVF success rates for ...

Human fertility hinges on a delicate molecular ballet that begins even before birth. UC Davis researchers have uncovered how special protein networks safeguard chromosomes as eggs and sperm form, ...

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 ...