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In February this year, Beth Harris sat in the day surgery waiting room of her local hospital and tried to steady her nerves.She was there for…

An in utero treatment using placenta-derived stem cells could treat infants with a neural-tube condition called spina bifida. Credit: Simon Fraser/Science Photo LibraryStem cells applied to…

A baby boy named Hugo is the first child to be born in the UK to a mother with a womb transplant from a dead donor.Hugo…

Researchers have created the lining of a womb in a dish, which promises to shed light on the mysterious early stages of human pregnancy and the…

Beth Schafer lay in a hospital bed, bracing for the birth of her son. The first contractions rippled through her body before she felt remotely ready.…