Anyone who has undergone IVF will tell you that the process can be daunting. It involves weeks of mood-altering, bloat-inducing hormone injections to retrieve eggs so they can be fertilized in a lab ...

In 1987, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued Donum Vitae (Instruction on Respect for Human Life), where the Church officially forbade the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF), stating ...

It’s obvious to anyone that we do not have a free-market healthcare system. The combination of huge purchasers, the insurance companies, and huge providers, hospital systems, has resulted in a ...

What does precision medicine mean for biotechnology? It means a future where every inherited genetic disease is curable. What does precision medicine mean for assisted reproduction? It means a present ...

Scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom have revealed, in a first-of-its-kind study, that they were able to grow human eggs in a lab. Their achievement could someday lead to new ...

The different types of goop that embryos are grown in during in vitro fertilization could play a part in how well the process works — and how babies conceived through IVF fare after birth, too. A new ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American During a recent afternoon coffee break in our ...