fertility
Can artificial intelligence improve IVF success rates?
In theory, an AI application would be able to pick out the single best embryo to use for IVF to ...
DNA testing uncovers fertility doctor’s decades-old dark secret
The first Facebook message arrived when Heather Woock was packing for vacation, in August 2017. It was from a stranger claiming to ...
Women’s fertility is a ‘black box’. This biotech company wants to help crack it open
Fertility is like most aspects of medicine — it’s rarely discussed until a problem arises. But as women wait longer to start ...
What explains twins that are ‘somewhere in between’ fraternal and identical?
A few years ago, Michael Gabbett got a call from a very confused ob-gyn. A woman had come in pregnant ...
Fertility doctor suspected of fathering 200 children will have DNA tested, court rules
A fertility doctor suspected to have fathered scores of people by secretly swapping donors' sperm for his own will have ...
First clinical trials for controversial ‘3-parent’ fertility treatment begin
[A] 32-year-old Greek woman, who’d previously undergone two operations for endometriosis and four unsuccessful cycles of IVF, once again returned ...
Redefining reproduction? Immature human eggs made from blood cells
We all know how babies are made: sperm meets egg, molecular magic happens, and an entire human comes to life ...
What’s the difference between choosing healthy embryos and picking a baby’s eye color?
Blair and James are trying to start a family. Like many parents, they hope their future offspring will be healthy ...
Spermageddon? Diving sperm counts say more about male anxiety than male fertility
There was something wrong, very wrong, with Israeli testicles. A few years ago, an army major named Hagai Levine began ...
Genetically modified hormone opens doors to personalized fertility treatments
An Israeli biotechnology firm based in Be’er Tuvia in southern Israel has developed a new-generation fertility treatment through the manipulation ...
Fertility clinic meltdown: What happens when slumbering eggs are awakened early
Fragile spindle apparatuses are an integral part to embryonic growth. What happened to embryo structures when they were thawed and ...
Fertility quest: How technology has fueled quantum leaps
Nanotech, artificial intelligence, wearables and biological engineering are among the new high tech ways to knock you up, stop your ...
Male pregnancy may be closer than you think
As women begin to receive uterine transplants, the question is being asked of when they will be available for men ...
Promising future of delayed fertility? Don’t count your (frozen) chickens
Affluent women or those willing to take on sizable debt and want to delay having babies can freeze their eggs ...
