For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their ...

Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an embryo—the developmental stage before a fetus—to implant in the woman’s uterus. Part of the problem is that researchers have no idea how ...

Analyzing embryo movements in uteruslike environments could offer clues to improving the success rate of in vitro ...

That’s not to say that making babies will become obsolete, but, rather, that technology will change the ways we do it. There could be a much safer and easier way to reproduce – and sex as we know it ...

If humanity’s future really is in the stars, what will that mean when it comes to, well, making more humans? As a number of ...

The nuance and depth of understanding of the human reproductive and endocrine systems required to pull off such a feat would have benefits for everyone, womb or not.

Recently, scientists have reviewed the existing literature to understand how space travel, space radiation, and microgravity affect human reproductive functions. This review was published in Npj ...

Scientists recorded in 3D and in real time the exact moment a human embryo implanted itself in an artificial uterus, opening ...

News Release 15-Apr-2025 Studying how seals adapt to extreme environments could lead to benefits in human reproductive health Peer-Reviewed Publication Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution image: ...

Many people, especially those living at high latitudes, suffer from vitamin D deficiency. This has insidious effects not only on bone health but also on reproduction.

A research team from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine ...