The majority of fertilized eggs die and are resorbed into the body. ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr, CC BY-SA As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of ...

Many state legislatures are seriously considering human embryos at the earliest stages of development for legal personhood. Total abortion bans that consider humans to have full rights from the moment ...

In 2016, two Japanese reproductive biologists, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Mitinori Saitou, made an announcement in the journal Nature that read like a science-fiction novel. The researchers had taken skin ...

Is a frozen embryo a child? The Alabama Supreme Court says yes. In a recent ruling that three couples who lost frozen embryos in a storage facility accident could sue for wrongful death of a minor ...

Some of the old distractions concerning the abortion debate have been circulating, including in letters to the editor in the News Tribune (Reader's View: "Are pro-life zealots really control freaks?" ...

When it comes to abortion, this letter is for all those who subscribe to scientific facts regardless of religious beliefs, personal opinions, or morals. The science of the creation of human life is ...