AlphaFold revealed a trio of sperm proteins enables fertilization by binding to egg proteins. The mechanism works in ...

In a new study, researchers have identified a trio of proteins that serve as the critical key in allowing sperm to fuse with ...

A groundbreaking discovery has recently brought hope to millions of people living with type 1 diabetes around the world. In a ...

In the 1980s, scientists knew little about the X and Y chromosomes. What they did understand was that every cell in the body ...

Using Google’s AlphaFold, researchers identified the bundle of three sperm proteins that seem to make sexual reproduction possible.

When fertilization occurs, male and female gametes join creating a zygote. Donors may donate gametes, sperm or egg, to a bank or a person seeking to have a child. The legal arrangement and ...

The Catholic intellectual says the growing taboo in the West against challenging ‘abortion rights’ is due to a failure to ...

See Table 1 for a review of genetic terminology. During oogenesis and spermatogenesis, each parent contributes 23 chromosomes to the zygote through a process of chromosomal reduction called ...

How do we develop from a single cell to a multicellular organism with a gut, heart, and brain? What are the forces initiating life? Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, professor at the Institute of Science and ...

The formation of the seed completes the process of reproduction in seed plants (started with the development of flowers and pollination), with the embryo developed from the zygote and the seed ...

This useful study by Gao et al identifies Hspa2 as a heterogeneous transcript in the early embryo and proposes a plausible mechanism showing interactions with Carm1. The authors propose that ...