Bootstrap Bio and Manhattan Genomics, which were pursuing human embryo editing to prevent serious disease, have shut down.

New clues from genetic research may help explain what causes the most common heart defect present at birth. Researchers at ...

Eating large amounts of ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked not only to reduced fertility in men, but also to slower growth ...

Utah-based Paterna Biosciences says it has created functional human sperm entirely outside the body and used it to fertilize eggs, forming embryos—a potential first in humans. The company aims for ...

Researchers investigating a widely used medication have uncovered an unexpected cellular process that may interfere with ...

High-resolution imaging reveals a large protein complex in egg cells that stores key developmental molecules. The structure ...

Bemdaneprocel is a cell therapy composed of human embryonic stem cell-derived midbrain dopaminergic neuron progenitor cells.

Scientists have found that sperm in space can’t find their direction during their pursuit to fertilize an egg.

Researchers have unveiled a new biological platform for studying mitochondrial DNA in physiology, adaptation, disease mechanisms, and therapeutic development.

Research cited from Duke University and Boston University, along with animal studies, clinical observations in IVF ...

Amy Dockser Marcus is a health and science reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Boston.

A Florida IVF clinic is being sold amid its involvement in a lawsuit following an embryo mix up resulting in a woman giving birth to a baby not genetically hers. IVF Life Inc., located in Orlando, ...