Last month, hospitals and clinics were forced to stop all in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are legally protected children. On 28 ...

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Heidi Collins Fantasia is an associate professor of nursing at University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 ended the federal right to abortion, legislative ...

Fertilisation might sound like a science class topic. But even if you haven’t thought much about it, a lot is happening inside your body long before a pregnancy test could show any result. Your eggs ...

(a) A pollen grain containing the two sperm cells. It produces a pollen tube, which arrives at the ovule. After the arrival, one of the synergid cells degenerates and the pollen tube bursts to ...

The protein RGS2 can delay an egg’s development into an embryo in order to allow time for sperm to arrive and merge with the egg in a healthy fertilization process. The embryo cannot survive without ...