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 ...

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 ...

Egg cells missing a key protein may be more likely to end up with the wrong number of chromosomes, but an mRNA injection that ...

A research team from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has developed the world's first artificial intelligence (AI) model ...

On June 14, 2023, developmental biologist Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz presented her research on creating human embryos using stem cells at the 2023 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem ...

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 ...

Synthetic human embryos — also called embryoid bodies, embryo-like structures or embryo models — mimic the development of “natural human embryos,” those created by fertilization. Synthetic human ...