To acquire the ability to fertilize the egg, mammalian spermatozoa must undergo a series of changes occurring within the highly synchronized and specialized environment of the female reproductive ...

Environmental change frequently drives morphological diversification, including at the cellular level. Transitions in the environment where fertilization occurs (i.e., fertilization mode) are ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a fundamental protein in human fertilization, called MAIA, which could lead to an improved understanding of infertility. For fertilization to be ...

Researchers have decoded a long-standing mystery of how flowering plants ensure their sperm cells successfully reach the egg for fertilization, according to a recent study published in the journal ...

A research team from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has developed the world's first artificial intelligence (AI) model ...

Stored sperm may age faster than reproductive medicine has assumed, suggesting that shorter abstinence periods could benefit ...