Laws such as Alabama’s controversial ruling that gives personhood rights to frozen embryos will have ripple effects on how advance directives are interpreted by doctors and the courts.

I’m a scholar, not an activist or an advocate. But now one of the most intimate, personal events of our lives had been turned into a political event by the state’s highest court.

IVF is a decades-old procedure that has allowed increasing numbers of prospective parents to have children. Evolving legislation may put it under threat.

After Alabama's ruling on in vitro fertilization, Ruth Faden, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University, explores what's next for IVF in the United States.

The discovery of genetic variants that are responsible for poor fertility in bulls could help clarify reasons for infertility in men.

Understanding how the ageing of sperm works in other animals is more important than ever as human male fertility is in decline.

Phosphorus and nitrogen contribute to water pollution and cause harmful algal blooms. New research shows how mats of floating flower beds can take advantage of these nutrients while cleaning the water.

What are the social, ethical, and legal implications of the ability to create eggs and sperm from any cell? An expert weighs in.

Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much more skeptical view.