Kanazawa University and colleagues have achieved a breakthrough in understanding sperm DNA packaging. Using high-speed atomic ...

In terms of food factors that may help improve egg quality, most of the research is centered around the Mediterranean diet, ...

Over time, that can damage your cells, including your eggs ... If you have few risk factors for poor egg quality to begin with—say, you’re under 35, have no reproductive health conditions ...

To the naked eye, the egg of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito is just a dark speck, but under ... up on a microscope slide. Hammond looks for the narrow end, where the germ line cells that will ...

The fluids are populated with spermatozoa (sperm cells) that can fertilize an egg. When viewed under the microscope, sperm appear as oval-shaped cells with long tails (flagellum) that enable movement.

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Rather than heavyweight boxers or expensive racehorses battling it out in front of a live audience, two sperm samples will go ...

However, in sperm cells, histones are replaced by protamines, which enable extreme DNA condensation. This compaction is essential for protecting genetic material during fertilization, ensuring ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...