TOWSON, Md. — The journey to becoming a parent can take many forms. Thanks to advances in technology, freezing pre-embryos outside of a mother's womb is becoming more popular. But what happens to that ...

Scientists have created embryo models to help study the mysteries of early human development, the medical problems that happen before birth and why many pregnancies fail. These models are made from ...

Scientists are using human stem cells to create a structure that mimics a pre-embryo and can serve as a research alternative to a real one. They say these “blastoids” provide an efficient, ethical way ...

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A decades-old Missouri law states life begins at conception, which some IVF patients worry puts the procedure at risk. Fertility lawyer Tim Schlesinger said court cases protect the in vitro ...

Important developments in the church and the world. Liberty University chose not to renew Ergun Caner’s contract as seminary dean after a trustee investigation found Caner made “self-contradictory” ...

The following references illustrate the fact that a new human embryo, the starting point for a human life, comes into existence with the formation of the one-celled zygote: "Development of the embryo ...