When you seek the help of a fertility specialist to conceive, your first step is to undergo diagnostic tests to understand your likelihood of success. This is followed by a comprehensive consultation ...

Many women freeze their eggs to increase their chances of having children later — but that's not always a possibility. (Photo: Getty; designed by Quinn Lemmers) Ahead, women whose frozen eggs didn't ...

Alabama lawmakers, reacting to public outcry over the state Supreme Court's decision that embryos created by in vitro fertilization are legally the same as children, passed a law on March 7 designed ...

Many have suggested that I freeze my eggs because I recently turned 30 years old, and I’m unmarried and single. While I normally ignore unsolicited advice about my body and future, I have been more ...

If you’ve been trying to conceive for some time but are still getting negative pregnancy tests, then IVF, or in vitro fertilization, may be an option for you. So what is IVF? In short, it’s a ...

An unexpected discovery about fertilization from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals new insights on how sperm and egg fuse and could have major implications for couples battling ...

In this empowering resource, the doctors behind the Fertility Docs Uncensored podcast shed light on in vitro fertilization, the complex process of retrieving eggs from ovaries and fertilizing them ...

Human bodies have to be built from a single egg cell that's fertilized by a sperm cell. Many rounds of cell division occur as the body is developing, and it seems that there are plenty of chances for ...

When sperm meets egg, the start of life is not quiet. Under a special microscope, researchers have watched a tiny light show at fertilization. They see a microscopic flash at fertilization, a burst of ...