In a tank across town, suspended in liquid nitrogen at -320°F, float my leftover embryos, whose future is unknown to me. From this batch, I have two children, and my husband and I feel confident our ...

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 ...

Frozen human embryos are pictured in a file photo. Credit: OSV News photo/Ian Hodgson As in vitro fertilization (IVF) continues to make headlines, the status of the many embryos created and frozen in ...

Advances in assisted reproduction are no longer limited to simple ovarian stimulation. An international team has just reached ...

The “world’s oldest baby” has been born from an "adopted" embryo created in 1994. This week we welcomed a record-breaking baby to the world. Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived over the weekend, ...

For the first time, scientists have recorded a human embryo implanting into a womb in real time, a feat the researchers hope will lead to new ways to treat infertility and prevent miscarriages. "Being ...

A baby boy born last week to an Ohio couple developed from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years in what is believed to be a record length of storage time before a birth. In what’s ...