URBANA, Ill. — The success of in vitro fertilization depends on many factors, one of which is sperm viability. A recent study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign documents a new way to ...

The use of time-lapse monitoring in IVF does not result in more pregnancies or shorten the time it takes to get pregnant. This new method, which promises to "identify the most viable embryos", is more ...

A world-first IVF trial in the UK has led to the birth of eight healthy babies, using a new method that greatly reduces the risk of mothers passing on genetic diseases. The technique targets ...

SCIENTISTS are going back to basics and testing simpler procedures for in vitro fertilisation that could cost less than $300. Now, scientists are going back to basics and testing a simpler and cheaper ...

Women who have had several unsuccessful attempts at IVF may benefit from a new technique, developed by a PhD student in Sydney. Ms Susan Adams, from the Cell and Reproductive Biology Laboratory at the ...

Certain forms of IVF treatment are significantly associated with an increased risk of low intelligence in children, a major study has shown. A link was also found with an especially severe type of ...

Baby Heath - who is now nearly eight weeks old - was conceived using a natural hormone to kick-start his mother's ovaries. UK doctors at Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London say their ...

A link was also found with an especially severe type of autism, but only in the case of twins or triplets. Scientists who analysed data on more than 2.5 million births stressed that the chances of an ...