New MAIA protein, named after the Greek goddess of motherhood, helps to draw the sperm into the egg cytoplasm for completion of fertilisation Infertility is unexplained in more than half of people who ...

Once couples opt to undergo fertility treatment, men can experience feelings of stress and anxiety. Care Fertility highlights ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A cellular signaling system that responds to THC, the active substance in marijuana, as well as to anandamide, a cannabinoid-like molecule normally produced in the body, may regulate ...

In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a “fairy tale” rooted in ...

The British public has been misled in regard to the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill, according to many Catholic Ministers of Parliament. The bill passed this week in the UK allowing admixed ...

Human bodies have to be built from a single egg cell that's fertilized by a sperm cell. Many rounds of cell division occur as the body is developing, and it seems that there are plenty of chances for ...

LONDON — Even the “yuck factor” wasn’t enough to prevent British authorities from authorizing a new form of morally problematic cloning research. It was a decision that drew international condemnation ...

Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa yesterday said Lagos deserved a law on surrogacy, human fertilisation and other related areas. He spoke during a stakeholders’ meeting on “A Bill ...

Scientists have discovered that genes in human embryos rapidly become active after fertilization, opening a new window onto the start of human embryonic life. The finding that some genes are active ...

While many hail the ruling, critics fear mutant creatures may result. Sept. 13, 2007 — -- Last week, Britain made a landmark decision that allows researchers to use animal eggs in the creation of ...