DNA normalcy aside, other facets of an egg—like its shape and the function of its cellular structures—can also influence its potential to get fertilized and continually divide and grow into a healthy ...

The largest U.S. report of elective fertility preservation outcomes to date found that 70 percent of women who froze eggs when they were younger than 38—and thawed at least 20 eggs at a later date—had ...

For many women balancing careers, relationships and long-term life plans, egg freezing has become a way to protect future fertility—but medical science shows that preparation before the procedure can ...

Erin Hanley knows she wants kids someday, but doesn't know how or when it will happen, which led her to freeze her eggs in the fall of 2020. "I always wanted to have options so that I could make a ...

When it comes to fertility, women want to have all the facts and learn about all their options. Unfortunately, there’s limited education we receive about the individual factors that affect our ...

It’s 2019 and shockingly little about the conversation about reproductive choice has changed. While the ominously ticking biological clock in older ads has been replaced by more “empowering” messages ...

“This is Marina. She leads a feminist organization.” This is how I am introduced at the entrance of an event that aims to “normalize egg freezing,” run by a startup collaborating with a private ...

For many women today, life has changed and is no longer always following the traditional ‘marriage and then child’ timeline. Careers are demanding, the right partner might not have come yet, health ...

A new study has found that slow-swimming sperm are disadvantaged by narrow areas of the female reproductive tract, preventing them from reaching an egg. Less active sperm may never have the chance to ...

Fertility is something that's important to many people, but we all know that there's a finite amount of time in which a woman can conceive a child. By the age of 37, it's believed that around 90% of a ...

Three weeks before my 37th birthday, a good friend called me in tears. After two years of trying to get pregnant, she'd learned her ovaries had shut down. At 38, she had to accept that it was too late ...