While using a light microscope to study sperm formation in wasps, Henking noticed that some wasp sperm cells had 12 chromosomes, while others had only 11 chromosomes. Also, during his observation ...

Infertility is a major global challenge associated with physiological and psychological impact. Genetic mutations that affect ...

Genetic changes are a significant cause of infertility, impacting over 15% of the global population. TLE6, a major protein ...

Are epigenetic marks also important for the very process that generates oocytes and sperm? Scientists have learned much about the formation of germ cells and how epigenetic marks in these cells ...

Meiosis, as described above, is the process by which certain sex cells are created. If you're male, your body uses meiosis to create sperm cells; if you're female, it uses meiosis to create egg cells.

Instead of a sperm and egg, the starting material was naive stem cells which were reprogrammed ... for studies of the events that lead to the formation of the human body plan," he said.

Researchers have discovered how egg cells prepare for life by studying the Balbiani body, a structure that organizes key ...

Researchers explored the role of the TLE6 protein in male fertility using a novel mouse model. TLE6 deficiency caused ...

Successive academic studies and anecdotal evidence point toward increased cancer risk from smoke exposure among wildland firefighters. But an upcoming study from Colorado State University aims to ...

Yet the fruit fly egg, as the team showed, manages to destroy even this large formation. Ben-Hur and colleagues found that no sooner does the sperm penetrate ... inside immune cells that target ...