Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

Embryo transfer in horses is a type of assisted reproductive technology that has now become commonplace in equine breeding. Embryo transfer (ET) is a means of surrogacy; it involves removing, or ...

As you age, your fertility slowly declines. By freezing eggs or embryos when you’re young (usually under the age of 40), you can preserve your eggs’ health and, through in vitro fertilization (IVF), ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

The team placed blastocysts—embryos 5-6 days after fertilization that were donated following IVF procedures—onto the artificial endometrium. The blastocysts attached to the surface of the lining, ...

For many, having their own family by biological means is simply not possible. There is an increasing number of options available to those people, from adoption to surrogacy or egg or sperm donation.

A FROZEN embryo process known as vitrification has the potential to change the beef industry, a CQUni project is proving. Excitingly, this process has been fine-tuned by Vietnamese researcher Do Van ...

Embryos now cross borders with increasing regularity, carried quietly by couriers and safeguarded by systems designed to leave little to chance.

Kerry Katona has revealed she’s started the process of embryo freezing, giving fans a glimpse into the process. The 42-year-old star has five children but is leaving the option open to expand her ...

Millions of human embryos created for IVF pregnancies have been thrown away unused, figures have revealed. They show that for every woman who conceives a child through in vitro fertilisation, 15 ...