Scientists at Michigan State University have uncovered the molecular “switch” that powers sperm for their final, high-speed dash toward an egg. By tracking how sperm use glucose as fuel, the team ...

A Central Florida couple is searching for their daughter's genetic parents and their missing embryo after giving birth to a ...

Claims of a racialised Englishness act as a marker for other exclusive ideas of nationhood. The role these contested issues ...

It was likely six years ago when an embryo mix-up happened, resulting in a Florida woman recently giving birth to a baby that is not biologically hers or her partners, according to the couple’s ...

A judge ordered weekly hearings in a case involving a Florida couple who allege that an IVF clinic gave them the wrong embryos, which they learned upon the birth of a baby girl last year.

In 1886, chemist W. J. Rendell manufactured the first birth control suppository. It contained a cocoa butter shell for suppositories that melted in the body to release the medication quinine, a drug ...

Male and female brains begin developing differently in the womb. Here's how genetics, hormones, and prenatal biology shape brain structure, behaviour, and mental health outcomes before birth.

New details have been released after a Florida couple filed an emergency lawsuit against a fertility clinic, alleging their newborn child was not genetically related to either of them after an in ...

The 36-year-old, who wed Justin in November 2021, revealed her pregnancy news in October after undergoing five rounds of in ...

During IVF, eggs are collected from a woman’s ovaries and fertilized by sperm in a lab. The fertilized eggs, known as embryos, are then placed in a woman’s uterus with the hopes of the embryo ...

A study reported that the conventional method of searching follicular fluid didn’t find all the eggs. The new technology ...

Is prepping during the preconception period the answer for hopeful couples?