These clusters of cells are increasingly at the center of legal disputes, resulting in piecemeal decisions that have far-reaching consequences.

A Russian researcher at Harvard University is being detained over failing to declare frog embryos while passing through customs, according to a filing by her attorney.

The news of a woman unknowingly giving birth to another patient’s baby after an embryo mix-up at a Brisbane IVF lab has made ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz were able to engineer cellular models of embryos without ever experimenting with any actual embryos, allowing them to mimic the first few days after two sexually ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A woman in Australia unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after she received another ...

Australia’s Monash IVF confirmed that due to a “human error,” a woman has given birth to another person’s baby after an ...

A Virginia judge ruled that frozen embryos are not property and cannot be divided like goods. The decision overturns an earlier controversial ruling that referenced 19th-century slave law.

A new Kansas law and a bill advancing in Florida outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves ...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia judge determined embryos are not property that can be divided up, rejecting a previous analysis by the court saying such fertilized eggs could be ...

For fertility patients who never dreamed they’d have extra embryos, decisions about what to do with the surplus are personal — and increasingly political Susie Sheehan sat alone on her couch ...