Scientists have gotten an unprecedented look at how the human embryo implants in a uterus. They did this by creating very primitive, womb-like environments in the lab. "This is really important work ...

A new study shows that the embryo and the uterine lining conduct an active "conversation" from the very earliest stages of implantation. They engage in a back and forth of tiny packages called ...

Clare Kilcullen always wanted to be a mother, but when she went through early menopause in her 20s, she wasn't sure how that would happen. "[I thought] it would probably be an egg donor, but then in ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 10 of Aging-US on October 10, 2025, titled "Developmental arrest rate of an embryo cohort correlates with advancing reproductive age, but not ...

In Victorian Europe, hairwork jewelry was a popular means of remembering the departed. Family or friends would snip lockets of hair — or the dying individual would cut a locket himself and give it to ...

Catholics on social media have been sounding the alarm on a chilling new trend: turning embryos into jewelry. Embryos — frozen children — who are no longer wanted by a family are literally killed to ...

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to ...

It’s tempting to think that being pro-life would naturally mean supporting IVF, since so many people have used it as a way to have children. While the birth of any child is a wonderful blessing and ...

Have you noticed that you see the repeating number 666 a lot? You look out the car window to see 666 on a license plate. Your eyes get wide and you wonder, Is that a bad omen? What did that mean?

Successful fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), is often reliant on a clear understanding of developmental stages of human development. Clinicians working with assisted ...

During in vitro fertilisation (IVF), embryos undergo genetic testing before they are transferred to the uterus – but researchers have found that a widely used test cannot detect genetic abnormalities ...

Baby Thaddeus Pierce began as a embryo that was frozen for more than 30 years. He holds the record for developing from the longest-frozen embryo known to result in a live birth. His mom was 4 and his ...