Stem cell IVF could enable same-sex couples and single parents to have genetically related children. It’s time to think ...

Embryologists typically assess an IVF embryo's quality by examining it under a microscope. If it looks relatively normal but there are reasons to suspect possible problems, such as in cases of ...

Parenthood is today defined by personal timelines, medical options, and lifestyle preferences. With a growing number of Indian couples seeking fertility treatments, in vitro fertilisation (IVF) is ...

When it comes down to it, in vitro fertilization has two ingredients: a sperm and an egg. But it isn’t quite as easy as “one plus one equals embryo,” as there are several points in the process where ...

What does precision medicine mean for biotechnology? It means a future where every inherited genetic disease is curable. What does precision medicine mean for assisted reproduction? It means a present ...

Former Boston Globe writer Elizabeth Carr has been in the spotlight more than once since her birth 42 years ago. Why? Because Elizabeth is the United States’ first baby born through the in vitro ...

A clear blob floats on a tray below the microscope, its image projected onto a screen. A tool that on the screen resembles a glass straw, manipulated by the specialist looking into the eyepiece, ...

Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they’d designed and sent it by DHL to New York City. They followed it to a clinic there, called New Hope Fertility Center, where ...

Facing repeated IVF failures? Experts explain the key medical, genetic and lifestyle reasons why IVF may not work, along with ...