Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

Clare Kilcullen always wanted to be a mother, but when she went through early menopause in her 20s, she wasn't sure how that would happen. "[I thought] it would probably be an egg donor, but then in ...

Baby Thaddeus Pierce began as a embryo that was frozen for more than 30 years. He holds the record for developing from the longest-frozen embryo known to result in a live birth. His mom was 4 and his ...

ST. LOUIS — Samantha was an embryo frozen in time for approximately a decade before a middle-aged single mother said yes to her birth. That mother was Dawn Jones-Goldstein, a 46-year-old Eureka woman ...

A team of researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Spain has succeeded, for the first time, in recording in real time and in 3D the implantation of a human embryo. This ...

A confocal microscopy image of a nine-day-old human embryo, with specific proteins and cellular structures colored distinctively. Green relates to embryonic stem cells and magenta associates with ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...

The 21st century has seen startups rise from a relatively niche business approach to a multi-trillion-dollar phenomenon. Between 2021 and 2023, startups generated an estimated $7.6 trillion in global ...

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 the longest storage time before a birth. In what's known as ...

Welcome to the world, baby Thaddeus! An Ohio couple says that they have welcomed a baby boy who was born from an embryo that was frozen over 30 years ago. Lindsey Pierce, 35, and her husband Tim ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

The embryos were created in 1994, while the expectant father was still a toddler, and donated via a Christian “embryo adoption” agency. A baby boy born over the weekend holds the new record for the ...