What do the earliest stages of a pregnancy look like? Embryonic development has been extensively studied, but most of our knowledge of the earliest stages of a growing baby come from stationary ...

A randomized controlled trial looked at in-vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes in the UK and Hong Kong. The results, published in The Lancet, provide much-needed evidence that using time-lapse imaging ...

Avoiding a multiple pregnancy during IVF seems easy: Just transfer a single embryo. Single-embryo transfer is associated with a lower pregnancy rate as well as a much reduced multiple pregnancy rate.

This time-lapse video shows the development of the nervous system in a fruit fly embryo as it transitions to the larval stage. Fruit flies have a high reproduction rate and a very short gestation ...

The schematic outlines the development and validation of an AI model for evaluating in vitro-fertilized human embryos. It utilizes images captured at specific time points post-insemination (Day 1 and ...

Magdalena (Magda) Zernicka-Goetz, today a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology, recalled being an artistic child who enjoyed ...