Fertilisation might sound like a science class topic. But even if you haven’t thought much about it, a lot is happening inside your body long before a pregnancy test could show any result. Your eggs ...

Sperm unexpectedly inject RNA into the eggs they fertilise, possibly kickstarting crucial development of the embryo, suggests a study of human sperm. The discovery overthrows conventional assumptions ...

ANY biologically aware parent who has started talking about the birds and the bees will have realised halfway through that what they are really discussing is flowers. Bees carry pollen grains from one ...

Researchers have identified a novel mechanism through which a protein in barley supports female fertility and could help safeguard yield security in the future. A new scientific paper from Teagasc has ...

An ETH Zurich research team has visualised the fertilisation dynamics of human egg cell for the first time using simulations on high-performance computers. The simulations show how a protein on the ...

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 ...