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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that recognized the personhood of embryonic life sparked a nationwide debate about in vitro fertilization (IVF) over the last three weeks — but some people might be ...