The team placed blastocysts—embryos 5-6 days after fertilization that were donated following IVF procedures—onto the ...

Many of us take the ability to make babies for granted and yet know that for some prospective parents and babies, ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology has also proposed a limit of 50 families per donor across the EU.

Medically reviewed by Melissa Nieves, LND Key Takeaways Zinc has many health benefits due to its role in cell growth and development and its antioxidant properties, from supporting fertility to ...

Regarding the conception of human children: What if mothers could be removed from the equation? It’s a thought experiment that points to an idea so preposterous and unnatural that it seems almost ...

While whiskey, real estate portfolios and emotional intelligence tend to improve with age, sperm does not. New research suggests that your spunk does indeed sour with time — at least in terms of how ...

An egg cell and a sperm need to hold together tightly in the Fallopian tube in order to fuse, resulting in the creation of a new organism. One key part of this process involves the proteins Juno, on ...

Groundbreaking research shows that as men age, harmful genetic mutations in sperm become more common—not just from random chance, but because some are naturally favored. Advanced sequencing revealed ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers have created human embryos by taking nuclei from ordinary skin cells, placing them into donated eggs, and fertilizing them with sperm. The work is a laboratory ...

While men may be able to have children much later than women, doing so could come with an increased risk of inherited disease for their children. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute have ...