In vitro fertilization costs thousands of dollars and is often too expensive for many people struggling to conceive. A new ...

In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a “fairy tale” rooted in ...

As Election Day approaches, there's a national spotlight on reproductive health care. This includes a medical process hopeful parents go through to grow their families called in vitro fertilization.

A court decision in a wrongful-death case in Alabama last month drew a spotlight to in vitro fertilization, an increasingly popular method of conceiving babies for the infertile. In vitro — Latin for ...

Upon fertilization, two highly specialized meiotic germ cells, the sperm and egg, need to be transformed into a totipotent mitotic embryo. Sperm bind to the zona pellucida of the egg by an unknown ...

For 50 years, scientists in Großbeeren have studied how different fertilization strategies affect vegetable and soil quality.

In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is kind of having a moment right now. Back in June, Chrissy Teigen shared that both of her children were conceived through IVF and, in the new season of This Is Us, Kate ...