A Canadian study has shown that cannabis can have a negative impact on female fertility and the success of IVF treatments. But German experts say more research is needed on factors like age and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with in vitro culture, blastocyst formation from Invocell intravaginal culture performs slightly better ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 3D imaging model achieved more than 90% accuracy in identifying blastocyst features. Blastocyst overall ...

Researchers found that THC, the psychoactive compound in cannabis, alters oocyte gene expression, spindle formation, and ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, multiple embryo transfer is common among fertility clinics for various reasons including endometrial receptivity, number of viable embryos, patient choice, and clinic policy.

Newly created “blastoids” could give scientists a faster and simpler way to research embryonic development than using fertilized human eggs. Made of human stem cells, these blastoids are the most ...

Researchers have very limited opportunities to study the earliest stages of human development, but a groundbreaking discovery led by a team in Australia will now provide them with a valuable new model ...

The embryos of many species can stop developing when starved of nutrients, only to restart the process once these are restored – and scientists may have figured out how they do it. In the early stages ...