Embryologists typically assess an IVF embryo's quality by examining it under a microscope. If it looks relatively normal but there are reasons to suspect possible problems, such as in cases of ...

When it comes down to it, in vitro fertilization has two ingredients: a sperm and an egg. But it isn’t quite as easy as “one plus one equals embryo,” as there are several points in the process where ...

What does precision medicine mean for biotechnology? It means a future where every inherited genetic disease is curable. What does precision medicine mean for assisted reproduction? It means a present ...

FILE - Lab staff use a microscope stand and articulated hand controls to extract cells from 1-7 day old embryos, shown on the monitor at right, that are then checked for viability at the Aspire ...

Former Boston Globe writer Elizabeth Carr has been in the spotlight more than once since her birth 42 years ago. Why? Because Elizabeth is the United States’ first baby born through the in vitro ...

More successful IVF, egg cells from men, and sperm cells from women? Biotech researchers aim to greatly expand reproductive opportunity. WATCH: New infertility technologies could make the previously ...

A clear blob floats on a tray below the microscope, its image projected onto a screen. A tool that on the screen resembles a glass straw, manipulated by the specialist looking into the eyepiece, ...