The transfer of embryos cultured for five or six days (instead of two or three) after fertilization in IVF and ICSI has become routine in many fertility clinics. Many (but not all) studies show that ...

Length of frozen embryo culture was associated with an increased risk for gestational diabetes among women undergoing frozen embryo transfer.

Scientists have evaluated the adverse effects of blastocyst shrinkage on the reproductive outcomes of frozen-thawed embryo transfer. The effect was evident in embryos with morphologically ...

Single-embryo transfer has been recommended to reduce the incidence of multiple gestations when in vitro fertilization is performed in women under 36 years of age. We designed a prospective, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with in vitro culture, blastocyst formation from Invocell intravaginal culture performs slightly better ...

In a study of early embryonic development in primates, an international research team under the leadership of Berthold ...

An international collaboration of researchers from the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan and the Gladstone Institutes in the USA have generated 3D blastocyst-like structures ...

This study is led by Prof. Lei Jin and Dr. Lixia Zhu (Reproductive Medicine Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology). Assisted reproductive ...

In the field of regenerative medicine, one of the ultimate goals is to generate functioning organs from pluripotent cells, such as ES cells or induced pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). We have recently ...