Although much is known about the molecular maternal-fetal interactions during implantation, the 3D architecture of the uterine environment in which the early embryo develops is not well understood.

Another study focused on the perceptions of IVF couples regarding embryos, revealing that many do not view pre-implantation embryos as human lives. Instead, they consider successful implantation ...

There have been fewer multiple births in recent years. Here's why we're not seeing as many twins and triplets around anymore.

“To terminate pregnancy, you need to scrape the implanted embryo off or cause the lining of your uterus to shed,” Yen says. During a surgical abortion, doctors remove the embryo from your uteru ...

A California couple was gutted to find out that their IVF cycle had to be destroyed. But when they found out that it was due ...

‘My hope would be that we could let those embryos naturally pass, but now it’s, “Do we have to save them?” I don’t necessarily want to implant a child that I know is going to miscarry.

Jacob Hanna, a stem cell biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, wanted to know why this transition occurs. To answer this question, Hanna and his team set out to develop an ex utero embryo ...

By jump-starting the egg with a jolt of electricity, they can create an embryo that would become, if implanted into a surrogate mother, the patient's identical twin. Instead of allowing this to ...

From these embryos, ESCs could be isolated and the ... cell type for therapy after differentiation of the ESC and re-implanting these into the patient, as successfully demonstrated in a mouse ...