Meet Cody Robb, an IVF baby who became an embryologist to help others build families. Read his inspiring story and learn about IVF advancements.

The sperm and the egg cell's nuclei compete for size directly after fertilization and this is necessary for proper embryonic ...

Managing patient expectations in embryo diagnostics during in vitro fertilization requires a careful balance of empathy, ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...

Under his microscope, Jun Wu could see several tiny spheres, each less than 1 millimetre wide. They looked just like human embryos: a dark cluster of cells surrounded by a cavity, and then another ...

Our ancient past isn't always buried history. When it comes to our DNA, nearly 9% of the human genome is made up of leftover genetic material from ancient viruses (called endogenous retroviruses or ...

Magdalena (Magda) Zernicka-Goetz, today a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology, recalled being an artistic child who enjoyed ...