A new study found that microgravity simulated on Earth hindered sperm cell movement, egg fertilization and embryo development ...

Sperm could struggle to fertilise eggs in space, first study of its kind finds - Lack of gravity seems to make it difficult ...

Having a baby in space may require a bit more direction, with new Adelaide University research revealing the navigational ...

Knowing which way is up helps sperm find their way to an egg, new research indicates, and they struggle without the guidance ...

Having a baby in space may require a bit more direction, with new Adelaide University research revealing the navigational ...

Life begins with a quiet but precise choreography inside the nucleus. For decades, scientists believed that a newly ...

In July 1932, young pathology resident Elizabeth M. Ramsey was performing a routine autopsy with a colleague at New Haven Hospital when she made an extraordinary discovery: an apparently normal human ...

Pro-life advocates saw the 2022 Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization as a turning point in the fight against abortion in the United States. After the court ...

The leishmanicidal properties of a purified urease from the legume Canavalia ensiformis (Jack bean) (Sigma-Aldrich) were evaluated against promastigote forms at different concentrations (1.25, 2.5, ...

The very beginning of human life, as an embryo inside the womb, has always carried an air of mystery due to technical limitations. For decades, scientists have studied embryos under microscopes and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Monika Piotrowska, University at Albany, State University of New York (THE ...