LONDON—Britan’s in vitro fertilization teams are preparing for a major battle to defend their research against hostile lawmakers. The U.K. government last month published the framework for ...

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One month after the Alabama Supreme Court declared that frozen embryos are legally considered children – and two weeks after the state’s Legislature undid the major impacts of that decision by ...

Genetic testing on embryos is more sophisticated and accessible than ever—and it’s now being sold as a way to let parents ...

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine published a report that concludes preimplantation genetic testing for ...

Medical professionals and fertility clinics are prohibited, under penalty of law, from experimenting on a prospective parent(s) human reproductive material, including sperm, ovum, or embryo at any ...

Can one be an advocate for embryonic stem cell research while opposing human cloning experimentation? That's the question facing about 30 U.S. senators who have not yet taken a position on human ...

LONDON, May 19 -- British lawmakers voted Monday to allow the use of animal-human embryos for research after a national debate that pitted religious leaders who called it unethical against the prime ...

Ali Brivanlou slides open a glass door at the Rockefeller University in New York to show off his latest experiments probing the mysteries of the human embryo. "As you can see, all my lab is glass — ...