An international journal, produced on web and in paper copy, devoted to biomedical research and ethical issues surrounding human conception and the welfare of the human embryo. The period of human embryonic growth covered is between the formation of the primordial germ cells in the fetus until mid-pregnancy. High quality research on lower animals is included if it helps to clarify the human situation. Studies progressing to birth and later are published if they have a direct bearing on events in the earlier stages of pregnancy. Relevant topics include fertility and infertility, contraception, IVF and assisted reproduction, the preimplantation diagnosis of genetic disease, cloning, embryo stem cells, implantation and organogenesis, miscarriage, genetic disorders afflicting the embryo, and their alleviation, fetal operations and treatments, and the growth of embryos affected by these processes to term. Ethical and political topics arising through the treatment and care of various clinical conditions are presented. Counselling, news from wide sources, interviews with leading scientists and clinicians, replies to patients'' queries, a manufacturers'' corner, job opportunities, and other matters of relevance to the journal''s fields of study will be presented on web, paper or both. Patients will not be counselled about their condition.

這是一本國際期刊，以網絡和紙質文字制作，致力于圍繞人類受孕和人類胚胎福利的生物醫學研究和倫理問題。涵蓋人類胚胎生長的時期是胎兒中的原始生殖細胞的形成，直到懷孕中期。如果有助于澄清人類情況，則包括對低等動物的高質量研究。如果它們與懷孕早期階段的事件有直接關系，那么研究將逐步發表。相關主題包括生育和不孕、避孕、試管受精和輔助生殖、植入前遺傳疾病診斷、克隆、胚胎干細胞、植入和器官發生、流產、困擾胚胎的遺傳疾病及其緩解、胎兒手術和治療以及胚胎的生長影響。用這些過程來形容。在各種臨床條件的治療和護理過程中產生的倫理和政治議題被提出。咨詢、廣泛來源的新聞、對主要科學家和臨床醫生的采訪、對患者提問的答復、制造商的立場、工作機會以及與雜志研究領域相關的其他事項都將在網絡、論文或兩者上呈現。病人不會被告知他們的病情。