As nearly one in six couples experience fertility issues, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is an increasingly common form of reproductive technology. However, there are still many unanswered scientific ...

Clare Kilcullen always wanted to be a mother, but when she went through early menopause in her 20s, she wasn't sure how that would happen. "[I thought] it would probably be an egg donor, but then in ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development—including the production ...

Baby Thaddeus Pierce began as a embryo that was frozen for more than 30 years. He holds the record for developing from the longest-frozen embryo known to result in a live birth. His mom was 4 and his ...

Although embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have been successfully derived from mice and rats, efforts to establish chimeric and germline-competent ESC lines in species beyond rodents have been unsuccessful.

ST. LOUIS — Samantha was an embryo frozen in time for approximately a decade before a middle-aged single mother said yes to her birth. That mother was Dawn Jones-Goldstein, a 46-year-old Eureka woman ...

A confocal microscopy image of a nine-day-old human embryo, with specific proteins and cellular structures colored distinctively. Green relates to embryonic stem cells and magenta associates with ...

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 ...

Lindsey and Tim Pierce were open to "anything and everything" before they welcomed their baby, who was born from an embryo created in 1994 Getty Images A baby was born from an embryo that was in ...

The 21st century has seen startups rise from a relatively niche business approach to a multi-trillion-dollar phenomenon. Between 2021 and 2023, startups generated an estimated $7.6 trillion in global ...

A baby boy born last week to an Ohio couple developed from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years in what is believed to be the longest storage time before a birth. In what's known as ...