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 ...

UCLA graduate student Jeffrey Riffell and UCLA biology professor Richard Zimmer report the first experimental test on the role of small-scale physics as it influences the interactions between sperm ...

Fertilisation might sound like a science class topic. But even if you haven’t thought much about it, a lot is happening inside your body long before a pregnancy test could show any result. Your eggs ...

Researchers have decoded a previously unknown molecular mechanism in the fertilization process of vertebrates. The team of scientists have identified a specific protein in frog egg extracts that the ...

This complex medical procedure can seem overwhelming, but when broken down into its five main steps, it becomes more understandable. IVF is a type of assisted reproductive technology that involves ...

New MAIA protein, named after the Greek goddess of motherhood, helps to draw the sperm into the egg cytoplasm for completion of fertilisation Infertility is unexplained in more than half of people who ...

After fertilisation, the egg cell (purple) releases zinc ions (blue dots), which changes the shape of the green protein on the surface of a sperm. As a result, the sperm can no longer dock to the egg ...

The development of every animal in the history of the world began with a simple step: the fusion of a spermatozoon (the male gamete) with an oocyte, or egg (the female gamete). Despite the ubiquity of ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The possible loss of frozen eggs and embryos stored at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center is potentially devastating for the affected patients. If their eggs and embryos are ...