Globally, mothers are having fewer children. Yet despite this latest observed decline in birth rates, the number of twins and triplets being born today is higher than ever before. At such a critical ...

Dr He was promptly arrested and tried by Chinese authorities for 'illegally carrying out the human embryo gene-editing ...

All human persons are equal. This principle was at the heart of the recent ruling of the Alabama Supreme Court.

A woman is suing a fertility clinic after the wrong embryo was implanted in her, resulting in a shocking discovery once the ...

Could we apply this technique to humans? Though these experimental studies were conducted on mice, they raise the question of whether such procedures could ever safely produce human embryos, and what ...

Cloning someone would only create a twin, not a replica ... Narrator: We've been able to clone human embryos for about seven years. But as far as we know, no one's actually cloned a whole person.

Conjoined fetuses are a rare type of identical twins that share a placenta and an amniotic sac, when the embryo divides at ... Reaffirming the right of every human being, without distinction ...

In 2019, a New York couple sued a California fertility clinic alleging doctors implanted embryos that belonged to two other couples, a discovery the plaintiffs made after giving birth to twins.