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Clustered fruit fly nurse cells squeeze their contents into a large egg cell. Credit: Jasmin Imran Alsous Oocyte growth relies on physical phenomena that drive…
These distant primate cousins of humans are among the few mammal species in which male-female partners stick together year after year. Credit: David Haring, Duke…
Heliconius melpomene butterflies mating in captivity in Panama. Credit: Kelsey Byers Butterflies have evolved to produce a strongly scented chemical in their genitals that they…
In warmer waters, shark embryos grew faster and used their yolk sac quicker, which is their only source of food as they develop in the…
Researchers have evaluated for the first time the effect of a short/middle-term consumption of a mixture of tree nuts (almonds, hazelnuts and walnuts) on sperm…
University of Massachusetts Amherst scientists say discovery could lead to better diagnosis of male infertility. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have identified a…
Artist’s reconstruction of mating ostracods. Credit: YANG Dinghu Small bivalved crustacean ostracods are the most abundant fossil arthropods since the Ordovician and play an important…
One of the “surrogate sire” goats on the WSU Pullman campus. Credit: Washington State University For the first time, scientists have created pigs, goats and…
School spaces with newer furniture show significantly lower levels of hazardous exposures. There are good reasons to be worried about indoor air quality right now,…
Human Eggs Prefer Some Men’s Sperm Over Others Human eggs use chemical signals to attract sperm. New research from Stockholm University and Manchester University NHS…
New hormone that stimulates sexual functions in fish could lead to novel infertility treatments in humans. When University of Ottawa biologists Kim Mitchell and Vance…
New study aimed to assess the association between macrolides — a class of antibiotics used to treat common bacterial infections — and major malformations such…

Researchers in China Transformed Mouse Granulosa Cells Into Egg Cells and Produced Healthy Offspring
This photo shows a mouse obtained from gPSC4-derived oocytes by IVM and IVF. The mouse is now about one year old. The gPSC4- mice have…