Peace lilies are a popular houseplant but can be picky about the amount of fertilizer they receive. We'll explain why, in ...

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 ...

In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is kind of having a moment right now. Back in June, Chrissy Teigen shared that both of her children were conceived through IVF and, in the new season of This Is Us, Kate ...

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

They're not only adorable - they're a scientific breakthrough. For the first time, a litter of puppies have been born using in vitro fertilization, say Cornell University researchers. A female dog ...

In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a “fairy tale” rooted in ...