Understanding our earliest relationship experiences from the baby’s point of view and how these experiences set in motion life patterns have been the intense study of the field of prenatal and ...

Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualisation, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.) Talk recorded 2 December 2010. To comment ...

Women are twice as likely to give birth to a girl if they experienced more stress around the time of conception, a study has found. Researchers from Spain recorded the levels of the stress hormone ...

The protein RGS2 can delay an egg’s development into an embryo in order to allow time for sperm to arrive and merge with the egg in a healthy fertilization process. The embryo cannot survive without ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who conceive in the springtime may be more likely to deliver before 37 weeks gestation than women who conceive at other times of the year, two researchers from the ...