Smoking negatively impacts fertility in both sexes. It can make it harder to conceive, reduce quality of eggs and sperm, increase pregnancy complication risk.

Male fertility hinges on many intricate processes, with the blood-testis barrier (BTB) standing as one of the most critical ...

Men can take supplements for fertility, but prenatal vitamins aren't ideal. Instead, they should use multivitamins or ...

This study provides valuable findings on the role of site-specific DNA methylation changes during spermatogenesis and their contribution to paternal epigenetic inheritance. The study proposes that ...

Scientists have now conducted the first clinical trial of spermatogonial stem cell (SSC) transplantation, which entails ...

In evolutionary terms, fitness is defined as an organism's ability to survive and reproduce its genes into the next ...

New research adds to the understanding of how mitochondria function during spermatogenesis, the process by which sperm cells ...

"Spermatogenesis can and does occur fine without Slxl1/Slx and Sly, yet these genes have persisted in mice by integrating themselves into a system that is very important for the species. We have ...

In an advance for treating male infertility, researchers transplanted a patient with his own sperm-forming stem cells that ...

Interestingly, this mutation does not confer male sterility and mildly affects spermatogenesis. Thus, it allowed us to study the role of BEND2 in oogenesis. Our findings demonstrate that full-length ...