There are also concerns about the legal and moral status of embryos. Many countries currently prohibit growing a human embryo in a lab beyond 14 days as a moral safeguard. Full ectogenesis would ...

Complex algae, animals, fungi and plants all have predictable life histories that separate out three basic aspects of development and run them sequentially: the creation of an autonomous individual, ...

In July, a team at Anna University in Chennai, India, released its findings after surveying 300 people aged 21 to 45 who’ve been in committed relationships for up to 15 years. The researchers found ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb. It depends on ...

During her journey as a surrogate, Temitope was prohibited from leaving her home and eating specific food items for two weeks: noodles, oranges, pineapples, mineral drinks, and anything that burns ...

At a lab in the heart of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, scientists are breeding corals to be more resilient to rising ocean temperatures.

Celebrations at the University of Cambridge honour the life, work and legacy of Sir Robert Edwards, whose work revolutionised fertility treatment ...

Erin Tanti, his partner Marisa Gallo and St James Hospital owner Josie Muscat were on Monday charged with carrying out illegal In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF). All three pleaded not ...

A small group of leopard sharks has been seen – and caught on film – engaging in a three-way bout of reproductive hanky-panky in the wild. It's the first time scientists have documented this mating ...

China has designated 95 milu reserves across 26 provincial-level regions, and it has established the National Conservation and Research Center for Milu. As of August, the country has a total milu deer ...

A world-first study into how cannabis impacts egg production has found it may cause chromosomal defects, prompting a warning for women planning to get pregnant.