Upon fertilization, two highly specialized meiotic germ cells, the sperm and egg, need to be transformed into a totipotent mitotic embryo. Sperm bind to the zona pellucida of the egg by an unknown ...

In vitro fertilization costs thousands of dollars and is often too expensive for many people struggling to conceive. A new ...

A court decision in a wrongful-death case in Alabama last month drew a spotlight to in vitro fertilization, an increasingly popular method of conceiving babies for the infertile. In vitro — Latin for ...

As Election Day approaches, there's a national spotlight on reproductive health care. This includes a medical process hopeful parents go through to grow their families called in vitro fertilization.

Who hasn't seen it before: the view through the microscope in which a sperm penetrates an egg cell and fertilizes it. This fundamental step in procreation happens dynamically and seemingly without ...

A new study identifies the defective function of CatSper, an ion channel controlling calcium levels in sperm, as a common cause of seemingly unexplained male infertility. CatSper-deficient human sperm ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, is expected to sign the legislation that's modeled after Texas' controversial anti-abortion law.

Donald Trump touted himself as the “fertilization president” during a Women’s History Month celebration event at the White House on Wednesday. During the event that had a number of female members of ...