IVF is one of several techniques that exist to help people conceive when they have problems with fertility. Having a baby is not always easy and you can feel desperate if you don’t conceive quite as ...

Last month, hospitals and clinics were forced to stop all in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are legally protected children. On 28 ...

Infertility affects 10-15% of married couples in India. The majority of infertile couples who seek treatment are among the 30 million. Higher number of couples suffer from infertility in the urban ...

Belinda Kemp calls herself a practical person; a 'planner' who knows what she wants and how to get there. Until it came to having a baby. "In the back of my mind, I have always had the thought that I ...

Sperm washing is a process performed to separate healthy, motile (moving) sperm from the collected semen sample. When semen is collected, it contains not only sperm but also dead or weak sperm, ...

A protein called CatSper1 may act as a molecular 'barcode' that helps determine which sperm cells will make it to an egg and which are eliminated along the way. The findings in mice, published ...

An ETH Zurich research team has visualised the fertilisation dynamics of human egg cell for the first time using simulations on high-performance computers. The simulations show how a protein on the ...