A research team from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has developed the world's first artificial intelligence (AI) model ...

Humans have been travelling into space for over 60 years and to date, human conception in space has not occurred despite much public and media interest in the subject. Space impacts human physiology ...

Human reproduction exhibits marked temporal variation, with birth rates and conception outcomes fluctuating across the calendar year. These patterns arise from a complex interplay of environmental ...

Smoking by mothers during the period immediately before and after conception is linked to a delay in embryonic development, smaller fetuses at the time of the 20-week ultrasound scan, and lower birth ...

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 ...

During mammalian reproduction, millions of sperm undertake a journey that only one will finish. This journey to fertilization has been commonly viewed as a race: a sea of sperm competing to get to the ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into synthetic uterine tissue—revealing a key stage in reproduction. The resulting ...

Mrs Yinka Fatade (not real names) is 47 years old and a business woman, who has had 16 rounds of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) at various fertility hospitals before coming to Nordica Fertility Centre.