The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That ...
Male infertility is a major issue worldwide and its causes remain unclear. Now, researchers at the RIKEN Center for ...
Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...
Brazilian researchers have identified a previously unrecognized function of sperm that is unrelated to reproduction. A study of 13 patients admitted to the Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São ...
The study's main contributors include (L-R) graduate student Joshua Shaffer, professor Upasna Sharma, and postdoc Alka Gupta. (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta) The pioneering research of UC Santa Cruz’s ...
Researchers at Newcastle University in England report they have coaxed the first human sperm cells from embryonic stem cells, in a remarkable demonstration of how quickly the field of stem-cell ...
A man in his early 20s received a transplant of his own sperm-producing stem cells, which had been frozen since his childhood, in an attempt to regain fertility. Doctors are waiting to see if the ...
For centuries, women were usually the ones blamed for any issues related to fertility, the inability to have children or for not producing a coveted baby boy. (We’re looking at you, Henry VIII.) Of ...