NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women undergoing assisted reproduction may be interested to learn that transfer of a "blastocyst-stage" embryo increases their odds of having a boy. Blastocytes are the ...

Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidies does not improve live birth rates in couples undergoing intracytoplasmic ...

From overwhelming happiness to disbelief, moms share what it felt like when they finally got the call they'd been waiting for ...

When you seek the help of a fertility specialist to conceive, your first step is to undergo diagnostic tests to understand your likelihood of success. This is followed by a comprehensive consultation ...

"Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) has emerged as a powerful tool in assisted reproductive technology, offering the potential to enhance the chances of successful embryo ...

For women who are carriers of mitochondrial diseases, one particular in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure for having a healthy baby appears to be safe, according to new research. This option, called ...

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 two papers published in 2004 and 2005, the South Korean team of now-discredited Woo Suk Hwang reported, first, that it had succeeded in creating cloned human embryos via nuclear transfer and, later ...

At some point in our evolution, we lost the ability to activate a reproductive mechanism called embryonic diapause, which slows development, usually during the blastocyst stage. And so, unlike mammals ...

A test deployed in many fertility clinics to assess the viability of embryos for use in IVF is likely to overestimate the number of embryos with abnormalities, suggests a study published today. Using ...