One round of IVF costs up to $40,000. For millions of Californians, that barrier to parenthood just disappeared thanks to a new mandate.

Forty-four years ago today on Dec. 28, my mother gave birth to me, the first baby in the U.S. conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). I exist because of science, and most importantly, because ...

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

As a patient at the Utah Center for Reproductive Medicine, you can expect to receive the highest quality of care for your IVF treatment. Before you begin IVF, you will go through a fertility ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although most insurance companies in the United States do not cover in vitro fertilization, a few states mandate such coverage. Of the states in which in vitro fertilization services were available, 3 ...

Marissa Conrad, a freelance journalist based in New York, is the former features editor at Natural Health magazine. She’s also covered health and wellness for Eating Well, Furthermore, SELF and others ...

In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the ...