A team has identified a previously unknown phase of the immune response. The results challenge long-standing assumptions about the process called 'T-cell priming'. These new insights have significant ...

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

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

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 ...

Deep within the cells of mice, a genetic arms race is unfolding between X and Y chromosome genes, battling for dominance in ...

While this internal rivalry is usually hard to see, it becomes clearer when it involves genes on the X and Y chromosomes, ...

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 ...

Research continues to highlight threats to human health with widespread chlorpyrifos use that is not assessed in current ...

This narrative review centers on integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into surgical sperm retrieval techniques for ...

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

"The fact that fragile linear molecules are still present at Mars' surface 3.7 billion years after their formation allows us to make a new statement: If life ever appeared on Mars billions of ...