Scientists have discovered a kind of “pause button” in early human development. This biological mechanism has long been known in other mammals, but its discovery in humans could aid IVF procedures.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into collagen ...

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Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, ...

My son, who’s almost 3, is asymptomatic and thriving. His syndrome mostly just means annual visits to a C.F. clinic for monitoring. But for future pregnancies, we are debating whether we should do I.V ...

A new tool allows parents undergoing in vitro fertilization to screen their embryos for health issues, but is it ethical? Genetic disease is believed to be linked to 41 percent of U.S. infants' deaths ...