1 January 2023
Laboratory-grown sperm, placentas and embryos in animals will help us gauge why some pregnancies don't reach full term, but whether these procedures could one day be safe or even ethical in humans is unclear
25 August 2022
Embryo-like structures grown in an incubator instead of a uterus could lead to better treatments for infertility and a range of other medical conditions
11 April 2018
Artificial wombs and embryos made from skin cells – remarkable new techniques could revolutionise reproductive biology and help bring an end to infertility
13 March 2018
Thousands of frozen eggs and embryos may have been damaged after temperatures rose in two malfunctioning tanks at fertility clinics in California and Ohio
29 November 2017
Would-be parents seeking IVF treatment use published success rates to choose a clinic – but the stats don't reflect the real chance of getting pregnant
20 September 2017
The aim of the work is to better understand embryonic development, rather than to see if genome editing could prevent diseases in children
9 August 2017
The US Food and Drug Administration has asked John Zhang, who pioneered a technique to prevent mitochondrial disease, to stop performing the procedure
