Stillborn in Africa: UN pegs number at a million every year

Situation has worsened in 2 decades, may slip further due to COVID-19 pandemic, warns Unicef report

Umbilical discord

Lack of enforcing protocols is pushing up cesarean deliveries in India

Embryos obtained from test tubes are often defective, says study

Choosing the best embryo is the key to success in IVF

Gumming up the works

First gender

Two genes induce the intrinsically female embryo to change into a male

Babies galore

Wombs of the future

Artificial wombs for goats could help premature human babies survive

Cold birth

You take my heart away

When it comes to recieving hearts and kidneys, men do better than women. Women do better when it comes to donating organs

Ban recommended

Dying out

Sperm count and quality of human semen are declining in India

Baby from frozen eggs

Thailand

No to stress

Laughing into pregnancy

A good sex increases your chances of conceiving, say researchers

For their eyes only

In fly-world, a good pair of eyes can mean a lot. Like finding a girlfriend

Molly, the girl?

Science is probably going to ensure that people will be cloned eventually as was Dolly, the sheep?

The return of bad medicine

A medicine that had been banned for its harmful effects, may soon stage a comeback

Multiplication vexes

Exposure to environmental estrogens reduces male fertility

Babies made to order

A furore over the ethics of the new eugenics-reproduction technologies that could create 'designer' babies-has the medical community worldwide in …

Never give up

Spermatogonial stem cells may be the solution to long-lived fertility, feel American researchers

Stress and miscarriage

Cure before birth

Genetically weak foetuses can grow into healthy humans with bone marrow transplants

Tiny trouble-maker

Hope for infertile women

A new method to overcome infertility in mothers uses the same technique which was used to clone Dolly, the sheep