New MAIA protein, named after the Greek goddess of motherhood, helps to draw the sperm into the egg cytoplasm for completion of fertilisation Infertility is unexplained in more than half of people who ...

Human bodies have to be built from a single egg cell that's fertilized by a sperm cell. Many rounds of cell division occur as the body is developing, and it seems that there are plenty of chances for ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill receives its second reading in the House of Commons on Monday. Here are some key facts about the bill: -- The bill updates laws on ...

A new international study warns that reproductive health in space is no longer a theoretical concern and that questions about ...

Who hasn't seen it before: the view through the microscope in which a sperm penetrates an egg cell and fertilizes it. This fundamental step in procreation happens dynamically and seemingly without ...

Legislation passed by the House of Lords in 2015 enabled the performance of mitochondrial replacement in the United Kingdom for the prevention of severe mitochondrial diseases. The regulation of this ...

Concerned by the speed of research, policymakers are looking for alternative ways to establish rules on genome editing and other technologies. Outside the Third International Summit on Human Genome ...

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health beyond the bounds of planet Earth is no longer theoretical but now ...

Scientists have discovered that genes in human embryos rapidly become active after fertilization, opening a new window onto the start of human embryonic life. The finding that some genes are active ...

Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa yesterday said Lagos deserved a law on surrogacy, human fertilisation and other related areas. He spoke during a stakeholders’ meeting on “A Bill ...