ANY biologically aware parent who has started talking about the birds and the bees will have realised halfway through that what they are really discussing is flowers. Bees carry pollen grains from one ...

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From a history of zero fertilisation to multiple healthy embryos and a confirmed pregnancy, this represents the first documented ongoing pregnancy worldwide achieved using ICSI SPARK.

The AI model invented by HKUMed’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the School of Clinical Medicine has clinical value in evaluating male fertility. Conventional assessment methods rely ...

For decades, sperm were thought to become fully active the moment they entered the female reproductive tract. New research suggests otherwise. A temperature-sensitive switch inside sperm cells may ...

Purpose: To re-examine the risk of children born by assisted conception developing stage 3 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and to define whether the risk of ROP varies with the method of assisted ...

MR. THOMAS MEEHAN, one of the most acute and thoughtful of American botanists, has several times during he present year brought before the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences the subject of the ...

Sperm unexpectedly inject RNA into the eggs they fertilise, possibly kickstarting crucial development of the embryo, suggests a study of human sperm. The discovery overthrows conventional assumptions ...