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

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

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 ...

The abortion debate is unfortunately too often glossed as the “potential person’s right to life” vs the “woman’s right choose ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...