Genetic testing on IVF embryos could help women over the age of 35 conceive sooner, a trial has found. Discovering defective embryos could help reduce the 'emotional toll' of repeated IVF cycles by ...

A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity, autism, bipolar disorder, even celiac disease. These ...

Genetic testing of IVF-created embryos could help more women over 35 have a baby in less time, a clinical trial by researchers from King's College London, King's College Hospital, and King's Fertility ...

Genetic research has discovered some 15,000 diseases that travel through generations. Since 1989, it's been possible to screen embryos for 350 of these hereditary conditions, but the process takes ...

A new tool allows parents undergoing in vitro fertilization to screen their embryos for health issues, but is it ethical? Genetic disease is believed to be linked to 41 percent of U.S. infants' deaths ...

Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, ...

Genetic testing of IVF-created embryos could help more women over 35 have a baby in less time, a clinical trial by researchers from King's College London, King's College Hospital, and King's Fertility ...

After struggling for eight years to have a baby, Shannon Petersen and her husband decided to try in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 2022. Their fertility doctor recommended a test that sounded like ...

During in vitro fertilisation (IVF), embryos undergo genetic testing before they are transferred to the uterus – but researchers have found that a widely used test cannot detect genetic abnormalities ...

Nucleus Genomics, a genetic testing startup founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, initially launched in 2021 with the goal of calculating a patient’s risk for specific diseases. But it’s been courting ...