It's commonly thought that sperm "race" to the egg, with the winner fertilizing it. But is this really the case?

which was key to identifying the ‘lock and key’ fusion. It wasn't previously known how the proteins “worked together as a team in order to allow sperm and egg to recognize each other ...

Ovum or eggs are one of the biggest cells in the body and relatively, only a few are made. Fertilisation is the fusion of a sperm nucleus and an egg nucleus to form a zygote A zygote is a ...

Oregon lawmakers are considering whether to empower children conceived from donor sperm, eggs or embryos to gain access to the names of the donors who made their existence possible, similar to the ...

Therefore, plants rely on sperm and egg fusion to prevent multiple pollen grains from trying to reach the egg, according to research published yesterday (May 17) in Current Biology. When pollen grains ...

In a potential breakthrough for infertility and genetic disease treatments, scientists at Kyoto University have succeeded in mass-generating precursors to sperm and eggs from human iPS cells.