Alabama lawmakers, reacting to public outcry over the state Supreme Court's decision that embryos created by in vitro fertilization are legally the same as children, passed a law on March 7 designed ...

Who hasn't seen it before: the view through the microscope in which a sperm penetrates an egg cell and fertilizes it. This fundamental step in procreation happens dynamically and seemingly without ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm ...

In the face of the very real cross of infertility that many couples face today, the Church instead promotes research into ...

Emma is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation. The well-being of children, not profit margins, should be the top priority when it comes to in ...

IVF has become a commonly-used process by which people get pregnant. Experts say the fall of Roe v. Wade threw into question the legal fate of IVF. New federal legislation seeks to protect protect the ...

PHOENIX - What's being billed as a legislative study of in vitro fertilization could be the first step toward banning the process outright in Arizona. The proposal by Sen. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...

Elizabeth Dias is the national religion correspondent for The New York Times, and often writes about faith and politics. For this story, she spoke with scientists, philosophers and spiritual leaders ...

The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...