The pair alleges that they arrived at a renowned fertility center for treatment and were told that their embryo was gone Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

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 ...

The fertilized egg, or embryo, is then inserted for implantation into the uterus to achieve pregnancy. IVF is commonly used to improve the chances of getting pregnant when struggling with infertility.

Left: Vicki Meyouhas was left with spare embryos after IVF. She faced a daunting choice: Who should she donate them to? Right: stock image. Left: Vicki Meyouhas was left with spare embryos after IVF.

They say their embryos were killed after hydrogen peroxide instead of a sterile solution was used to clean the incubator their fertilized eggs were stored in. Representatives for Ovation could not ...

A court filing alleges that Aspire Houston Fertility Institute knowingly implanted at least five hopeful mothers with dead or damaged embryos. The lawsuit adds that this happened due to a massive ...

In mammals, signalling between the placenta and the embryo is essential for successful development. Here, a quantitative, time-resolved model describes the coordinated formation of the mouse ...

To maximize the chances of a viable pregnancy, IVF usually involves creating more embryos than a given couple is likely to use. But for couples who consider each embryo a human life, destroying ...

A Los Angeles IVF clinic famously used by the likes Kim Kardashian, Chrissy Teigen and Paris Hilton is being sued for allegedly tossing a couple’s embryos on purpose. Marissa Calhoun and Stephen ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Maastricht University have developed a technique that enables the examination of embryos for all known genetic abnormalities with a single test.

Led by Ichiro Hiratani and colleagues, the experiments published August 28 in Nature show that DNA replication in early embryos is different from what past research has taught, and includes a ...