Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on how artificial intelligence can change the patient-doctor relationship on'America's Newsroom.' AI's latest product – Remini – allows users to upload photos of themselves and their partner to generate images of what their future child could look like. There are two sides to this. First, the app lets people envision themselves as parents – potentially encouraging people to pursue, rather than delay, parenthood. As one woman said, "I can actually see myself being [pregnant] at some point."

In 2016, two Japanese reproductive biologists, Katsuhiko Hayashi and Mitinori Saitou, made an announcement in the journal Nature that read like a science-fiction novel. The researchers had taken skin cells from the tip of a mouse's tail, reprogrammed them into stem cells, and then turned those stem cells into egg cells. The eggs, once fertilized, were transferred to the uteruses of female mice, who gave birth to ten pups; some of the pups went on to have babies of their own. Gametes are the cells, such as eggs and sperm, that are essential for sexual reproduction. With their experiment, Hayashi and Saitou provided the first proof that what's known as in-vitro gametogenesis, or I.V.G.--the production of gametes outside the body, beginning with nonreproductive cells--was possible in mammals.

Despite market disruptions and unprecedented global events, the evolution of technology in every sector will continue because leaders worldwide actively develop solutions, overcome obstacles, and create new products. As this rate of advancement accelerates, technology will continue to be an essential component of success on any terms. Moreover, the leaders spearheading growth in this area also exercise best-in-class corporate practices, create healthy cultures, and achieve record-breaking revenues, concludes Dr Lebene Soga of Henley Business School. As the interplay between humans and technology develops, the prevalence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), intuitive interfaces, and predictive capabilities also grow. This asynchronous development has the net impact of making life easier, businesses more profitable, and infrastructure more enduring.

Cutting-edge technology has captured remarkable images of Charlotte as an embryo but what's even more extraordinary is how this technology helped bring her to life. Charlotte, now nine weeks old, is one of the first babies in Australia to be born with the help of artificial intelligence. Of all the things her parents, Sarah-Eve Dumais Pelletier, 32, and Tim Keys, 33, thought would improve their chances of having a child of their own, a computer was not one of them. Yet, here their daughter is after they endured a painful 12 months of fertility struggles, two miscarriages and a failed round of IVF. The husband and wife, who live on the Sunshine Coast, are among 1000 patients taking part in an Australian-first trial using artificial intelligence in the embryo selection process during an IVF cycle.

If a woman (or non-female identifying person with a uterus and visions of starting a family) is struggling to conceive and decides to improve their reproductive odds at an IVF clinic, they'll likely interact with a doctor, a nurse, and a receptionist. They will probably never meet the army of trained embryologists working behind closed lab doors to collect eggs, fertilize them, and develop the embryos bound for implantation. One of embryologists' more time-consuming jobs is doing something called "grading" embryos--looking at their morphological features under a microscope and assigning a quality score. Round, even numbers of cells are good. They'll use that information to decide which embryos to implant first. Newer methods, like pulling off a cell to extract its DNA and test for abnormalities, something called preimplantation genetic screening, provide more information.

There has been little innovation in the analysis of male fertility since the 1950s. Why? Tobias Boecker, Paris-based medtech entrepreneur is co-founder of Nanovare – a system that uses AI to help medical professionals to improve and speed up male fertility analysis – explores the current crisis in this field and what can be done to change things Birth rates are dropping, notably in the Western world. Between 1960 and 2015, the birth rate per woman in Germany decreased from 2.4 to 1.5, in the UK from 2.7 to 1.8 and in the US from 3.7 to 1.8. There are many external factors that influence this trend such as the increased age of marriage, the focus on professional careers, or the modernisation of social systems which eliminate parents' need to have many children to help support them in old age. Another factor that is becoming increasingly important is our own reproductive health, which depends on our lifestyle choices (eg smoking), environmental influences (eg pollution), and medical factors (eg genetic preconditions).

When she started in vitro fertilization, Katie Shepard, a medical device consultant from outside St. Paul, Minnesota, knew it could take more than one round to get pregnant. So, after the grueling regimen of hormone injections, ultrasound exams, egg retrieval and transfer of embryos back into her womb, she stayed optimistic -- until her second cycle. Of the 25 eggs harvested over the course of those two IVF treatments, only three developed into embryos. "It felt like someone took me out at the knees with a baseball bat," Shepard says. Worse, the embryos didn't take, nor did any from her third cycle.