Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After struggling for eight years to have a baby, Shannon Petersen and her husband decided to try in vitro fertilization (IVF) in ...

This month marks 40 years since the birth of the first baby conceived through in vitro fertilization, Louise Joy Brown. Since then, more than eight million babies have been born using the technique.

During in vitro fertilisation (IVF), embryos undergo genetic testing before they are transferred to the uterus – but researchers have found that a widely used test cannot detect genetic abnormalities ...

Nearly half the embryos studied underwent developmental arrest because of genetic mishaps in early development - a revealing insight that suggests more IVF babies could come to term with changes in ...