AlphaFold revealed a trio of sperm proteins enables fertilization by binding to egg proteins. The mechanism works in ...

We actually found that these animals are here quite a bit more often than we had realized,” says Will Oestreich, a researcher ...

Scientists have discovered how a sperm and an egg fuse together, in a way that resembles a ‘lock and key’. New research ...

The team found that three proteins on the sperm join to form a sort of key that unlocks the egg, allowing the sperm to attach ...

The team found that three proteins on the sperm join to form a sort of key that unlocks the egg, allowing the sperm to attach ...

Aristotle once wrote about females being ‘mutilated males’; suggesting that women are just an inferior version of men.

How a sperm attaches itself to an egg has been a mystery for a long time. Scientists still need to figure out how it enters ...

When fresh donor eggs are used in IVF cycles and the retrieved eggs are promptly fertilised with either the intended father’s ...