A bill that would require explicit consent for harvesting egg and sperm cells after someone dies passed the South Dakota House Health and Human Services Committee. House Bill 1094 would add a line to ...

Researchers often use a nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) to study human genetics because at the molecular level, we have a lot in common with these organisms. Scientists used a ...

Abstract: Sperm morphology measurement is vital for diagnosing male infertility, which involves quantification of multiple subcellular parts for each sperm. Instance-aware part segmentation networks ...

Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer, a new report stated on Wednesday, Dec. 10 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Scientists have identified a protein that may be key to proper sperm formation. Without it, male mice produced no viable sperm, they found. A team at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research ...

An egg cell and a sperm need to hold together tightly in the Fallopian tube in order to fuse, resulting in the creation of a new organism. One key part of this process involves the proteins Juno, on ...

The risk of older fathers passing on disease-causing mutations to their children is higher than we thought. Genome sequencing has revealed that among men in their early thirties, around 1 in 50 sperm ...

Mammalian fertilization begins with the species-specific binding of spermatozoa to the oocyte’s zona pellucida (ZP), a process mediated by multiple surface proteins forming a functional receptor ...

This story has been corrected for clarity; the finding of a beached whale was not part of this investigation. A South Carolina man faces hefty fines and home arrest for trafficking animal parts on ...

BEAUFORT — A St. Helena Island man was fined $15,000 for illegally trafficking sperm whale parts. Lauren Deloach, 69, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge David Norton to pay the fine into a ...

Scientists in the Netherlands have transformed sperm cells into microscopic robots in a move that could transform the future of fertility. The team from the University of Twente, in the Netherland, ...

More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only for increased access to affordable, high-quality fertility care for those ...