The time of year when eggs are collected from women’s ovaries during fertility treatment makes a difference to live birth rates, according to new research published today (Thursday) in Human ...

When you seek the help of a fertility specialist to conceive, your first step is to undergo diagnostic tests to understand your likelihood of success. This is followed by a comprehensive consultation ...

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This is an updated version of a story first published on May 4, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. Fertility rates in the United States are near historic lows. One reason is a sharp decline ...

Human egg cells have the ability to "power down" their internal recycling plants to protect themselves from harmful DNA damage as they age. This is the conclusion of an international team of ...

DNA normalcy aside, other facets of an egg—like its shape and the function of its cellular structures—can also influence its potential to get fertilized and continually divide and grow into a healthy ...

Talk to a group of 100 people born in the United States, and chances are two of them were born as the result of in vitro fertilization, said Dr. Zev Williams, director of the Columbia University ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A study of more than 400,000 IVF cycles has found that doctors should aim to retrieve around 15 eggs from a woman's ovaries in a single cycle for the best chance of achieving a live ...

For most women, fertility declines slowly with time and becomes significantly lower by their late 30s and early 40s. Freezing your eggs, which involves removing eggs from your ovaries and freezing ...

The time of year when eggs are collected from women's ovaries during fertility treatment makes a difference to live birth rates, according to new research. Researchers have found that transferring ...