POPE JOHN PAUL II: "The legal norm in particular is called to define the juridical status of the embryo as a subject of rights, recognizing it as a biologically irrefutable fact which in itself calls ...

Roughly 50 years ago, scientists pursued a line of inquiry about the creation and development of human embryos in the lab. As of now, the extent of this research is limited to the first 14 days ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's Roman Catholic Church has called for embryos to be given a clear legal status following a court decision that let parents of miscarried fetuses enter them with a name in the ...

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 ...

A synthetic embryo can now be constructed from very early pre-embryonic cells – without the need for an egg or sperm. These were initially created in mice. In April, Chinese researchers created ...

Weeks after it effectively disbanded a federal commission charged with protecting human research subjects, the Bush administration has revised the charter of the panel that replaced it to include ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

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. The case ...

Three couples whose frozen embryos were destroyed when a wandering Mobile hospital patient dropped the specimens can sue for wrongful death because the embryos were “children,” the Alabama Supreme ...

As you age, your fertility slowly declines. By freezing eggs or embryos when you’re young (usually under the age of 40), you can preserve your eggs’ health and, through in vitro fertilization (IVF), ...