NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women undergoing assisted reproduction may be interested to learn that transfer of a "blastocyst-stage" embryo increases their odds of having a boy. Blastocytes are the ...

The first steps of human development—those that occur within the first few weeks of pregnancy—remain mysterious in many ways. Within a week of fertilization, human embryos form a blastocyst, which ...

A pair of research teams unveiled two new ways to replicate a key structure from the earliest days of embryonic development — an advance that could provide important new insight into human development ...

The new platform's ethically grounded approach promises to reveal much about how human embryos form during the earliest stages of pregnancy. It's one of life's most defining moments -- that crucial ...

Over the past few decades, growing evidence has challenged the belief that inheritance is governed solely by DNA sequences.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ohana Biosciences, a pioneering reproductive health company that created the world’s first sperm biology platform for sperm-based products, today presented new ...

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