Freelance writer and content consultant Kristin Diversi always knew she wanted kids, so when she met her husband Blair in Raleigh, North Carolina, in March 2014, she knew she had found the one when ...

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), ...

(Reuters) - Following are excerpts from a Vatican document on bioethics released on Friday that spells out Roman Catholic teaching on scientific and medical procedures dealing with human reproduction.

With embryolike constructs built entirely from stem cells, researchers can revolutionize our understanding of development. But how close to an embryo is too close? In April, researchers in China ...

Scientists have created synthetic blobs that resemble a 14-day-old human embryo for the first time, meaning they can study embryo development beyond a particularly tricky period of pregnancy.

Scientists can now create realistic human embryo models in the lab, leading some to suggest that we rethink how we legally define an embryo. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smoke from so-called harm-reduction cigarettes is just as dangerous to developing embryos as smoke from standard cigarettes, and may be even more toxic, new experiments ...