A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

"The motherhood penalty -- the loss in lifetime earnings experienced by women raising children -- has become the most significant driver of the gender pay gap," the ...

Researchers have found a way to better pinpoint the “golden window” when a womb is ready for pregnancy, in a discovery that could help boost IVF success rates. Teflon-like molecule makes womb slippery ...

A team from Kumamoto University has uncovered a new mechanism that could revolutionize infertility care by promoting embryo implantation. The discovery focuses on prostaglandin (PG) receptors in the ...

A recent Nature study evaluates post-implantation development in humans using embryo-like models based on genetically unmodified human naïve embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Study: Complete human day 14 ...

When a 27-year-old woman wanted to have a baby using in vitro fertilization, there was one major problem -- she was a carrier of Gerstmann-Straussler-Sheinker syndrome. This rare, degenerative ...

Cryopreservation Technology , developed by the Japanese, preserves embryos and eggs at -196° C to maintain fertility for ...

A study describing how stem cells resembling the early embryo are restricted in their ability to differentiate into certain tissue lineages has been published today in Nature Cell Biology by an ...

Researchers find a way to better pinpoint the 'golden window' when a womb is ready for pregnancy, in a discovery that could help boost IVF success rates. Researchers have found a way to better ...