Mosquitoes No More? New Research Could Help Control Infectious Pests
Fighting back against mosquitoes by deactivating their sperm. A recent study conducted at UC Riverside makes it likely that proteins responsible for activating mosquito sperm…
Fighting back against mosquitoes by deactivating their sperm. A recent study conducted at UC Riverside makes it likely that proteins responsible for activating mosquito sperm…
Contrary to common beliefs, your urine is not germ-free. In fact, a new study shows that the urethra of healthy men is teeming with microbial…
Occupational factors, such as physical demands and work schedules, were associated with higher sperm concentrations and serum testosterone among men in the EARTH study. A…
New research suggests that naked mole-rats produce eggs throughout their lives, challenging the dogma that female mammals have a finite ovarian reserve. Unlike humans and…
In any given year, about half a million men in the United States undergo a vasectomy. Although the percentage of men getting them had been…
Obese men can double their sperm count Men all throughout the globe are experiencing declining semen quality, which is commonly referred to as an outright…
A study finds that complex human childbirth and cognitive abilities are a result of walking upright. Childbirth in humans is much more complex and painful…
Is it true that women who have twins are more fertile? While prior research concluded they are, a rigorous analysis of more than 100,000 births…
A gene responsible for prenatal death when critical transgenerational instructions are missing from egg cells has been discovered by researchers at the RIKEN Center for…
A new study sheds light on how obesity may contribute to male infertility. Published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Physiology, the study reports that…
New research from Yale University reveals the first evidence that childbearing may cause accelerated aging in women. The researchers tested 100 healthy postmenopausal women from…
The exact causes of infertility, which can affect around 10% of couples, are often unknown. In some cases, it may be a result of the…
In many species, females are attracted to large, conspicuous males. But among animals that mate with many partners, males that manage to mate with more…
Japanese scientists have been able to coax mouse stem cells into becoming viable eggs that were able to produce healthy offspring. This will provide a…
A new three-dimensional imaging technique has shown the spiraling movements that human sperm accomplishes while swimming. Previously, these movements had only been inferred from two-dimensional…
In a published study, scientists from the University of Zurich and Zoological Society of London describe how they believe the reproductive cycle of egg laying…
In China, during the Chinese Great Leap Forward famine, the male to female birth ratios fell significantly. This implies that whenever food is in short…
Researchers at Yale University have discovered how the regulatory gene, p53, oversees quality control in the production of sperm and possibly other cells with damaged…