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 ...

Some newly reported clumps of cells growing in lab dishes have been hailed as the closest things to human embryos that scientists have ever made in the lab. These entities are human embryo models — ...

An experimental treatment significantly improves the quality of human eggs and increases the proportion that can be used for ...

New Haven, Conn. — 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 ...

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 ...

After repeated, recent statements by U.S. President Joe Biden that he does not believe human life begins at the moment of conception, or characterizing such a belief as a matter of faith, scientists ...

Moira Gleason is a Daily Signal journalism intern. When Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at lowering costs for and reducing barriers to in vitro fertilization last month, that renewed the ...

Regarding the conception of human children: What if mothers could be removed from the equation? It’s a thought experiment that points to an idea so preposterous and unnatural that it seems almost ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state would recognize the “personhood” and constitutional rights of “all unborn human individuals from the moment of conception” under a bill introduced Monday by some of the ...

Emma is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation. The well-being of children, not profit margins, should be the top priority when it comes to in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. As an evolutionary biologist whose career ...