If the story of the 16-year-old U.S. figure skating phenom nearly sidelined from the Beijing Olympics by a COVID diagnosis wasn’t dramatic enough, the story of Alysa Liu’s heritage is a real page-turner. Liu’s father, [...]
All too often, Black women who seek treatment for infertility and Black intended parents who seek to create families via assisted reproductive technology (ART) encounter an unexpected barrier to access: A shortage of Black [...]
Exciting new tools are using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve success rates for assisted reproduction technologies (ART) such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy, resulting in fewer procedures, lower costs [...]
The path to parenthood just got a little smoother for U.K. intended parents planning surrogacy in the United States: The U.K. agency regulating assisted reproduction has agreed to overturn a rule that essentially prevented [...]
As growing numbers of babies born through the use of sperm and egg donation reach adulthood, a “donor conceived” movement, advocating for the right of donor-conceived people to know about their biological origins, has [...]
While donated eggs are used in tens of thousands of assisted reproduction cycles each year in the United States—24,300 cycles in 2016, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—there are few [...]