Many women freeze their eggs to increase their chances of having children later — but that's not always a possibility. (Photo: Getty; designed by Quinn Lemmers) Ahead, women whose frozen eggs didn't ...

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

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 ...

Sea urchin eggs, a common model for human fertility research, create a protein shield just minutes after fertilization. In Developmental Cell, Brown University biologists reveal their discovery of an ...

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 ...

Many have suggested that I freeze my eggs because I recently turned 30 years old, and I’m unmarried and single. While I normally ignore unsolicited advice about my body and future, I have been more ...

For the first time, a study shows that female eggs may not necessarily be required to create offspring; scientists from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom have developed a technique that ...

In this empowering resource, the doctors behind the Fertility Docs Uncensored podcast shed light on in vitro fertilization, the complex process of retrieving eggs from ovaries and fertilizing them ...

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

The development of every animal in the history of the world began with a simple step: the fusion of a spermatozoon with an oocyte. Despite the ubiquity of this process, the actual mechanisms through ...