In the 1980s, scientists knew little about the X and Y chromosomes. What they did understand was that every cell in the body ...

A groundbreaking discovery has recently brought hope to millions of people living with type 1 diabetes around the world. In a ...

The Catholic intellectual says the growing taboo in the West against challenging ‘abortion rights’ is due to a failure to ...

Jaida Elcock of SciShow explained the various ways in which identical twins may not actually be entirely identical.

When fertilization occurs, male and female gametes join creating a zygote. Donors may donate gametes, sperm or egg, to a bank or a person seeking to have a child. The legal arrangement and ...

Londoner Ayman Rostom has been around the block and then some. For some 25 years he’s been a hip hop producer as Dr Zygote, ...

These two haploid cells produce a diploid zygote. Hormonal control of reproduction Hormones control puberty, the menstrual cycle, and sperm production and play a crucial role in in the control of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a bid by an Alabama fertility clinic to avoid a wrongful death claim in a civil ...

How do we develop from a single cell to a multicellular organism with a gut, heart, and brain? What are the forces initiating life? Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, professor at the Institute of Science and ...

This useful study by Gao et al identifies Hspa2 as a heterogeneous transcript in the early embryo and proposes a plausible mechanism showing interactions with Carm1. The authors propose that ...

Most animals carry out sexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction involves the joining of two sex cells or gametes – the sperm (male gamete) and the egg or ovum (female gamete). The male and ...