Advances in assisted reproduction are no longer limited to simple ovarian stimulation. An international team has just reached ...

The researchers say their treatment improves the accuracy of chromosome segregation during egg maturation by restoring levels ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a fundamental protein in human fertilization, called MAIA, which could lead to an improved understanding of infertility. For fertilization to be ...

Egg fertilization is often described as an epic swim meet: Millions of sperm swim as fast as they can toward the egg until one — the fastest, strongest, healthiest sperm of them all — wins the race ...

Artistic depiction of how fusion of a sperm with an egg at fertilization triggers a cascade of events that ultimately zips up the filamentous matrix around the egg, thus permanently blocking ...