The entire process takes approximately two weeks, with an additional week for embryo culture and cryopreservation. At a later date when the woman wants to conceive, the embryos can then be warmed and ...

The corpus luteum secretes hormones to help an embryo implant in the uterus. Here's what to know. The corpus luteum forms from the empty follicle left behind after ovulation. It is the last active ...

During IVF treatment, doctors use ultrasound scans to monitor the size of follicles—small sacs in the ovaries containing eggs ...

A new mRNA therapy tested in mice may target the root cause of the potentially fatal pregnancy disorder preeclampsia. It's yet to be tested in humans.

After spending around five days in a protected lab environment, the fertilized egg (embryo) is transferred into the uterus in hopes ... of one or two hormone injections a day, sometimes up to ...

Although much is known about the molecular maternal-fetal interactions during implantation, the 3D architecture of the uterine environment in which the early embryo develops is not well understood.

One argument (which is not the focus of this post) is that drugs that, in addition to preventing contraception, also sometime operate to prevent implantation in the uterus of a fertilized egg ...

24.9%), and implantation rate (pregnancy rate/embryo) (5.8% vs. 11.7%) were all lower than the French national IVF database. Surgically treated uterine septi had a non-statistically significant ...

While surgical embryo transfer (ET) is an effective method for transfer of embryos into the uterine horn of mice ... in vitro fertilization (IVF), or embryonic stem (ES) cell injection as an ...