Tails take up most of the real estate on a sperm cell. They may have tiny bodies, but fruit flies produce giant sperm. Adult ...

Fruit flies’ giant cells rely on collective motion, pushing against each other to prevent their flagella from tangling ...

Beads left magnetic sperm healthier than untagged cells, and a magnet steered them to an egg, a step toward conception inside ...

A team of researchers at the TechMed Centre of the University of Twente has transformed real sperm cells into tiny, magnetically controlled microrobots. These sperm bots can now be tracked in real ...

A colony of human embryonic stem cells is seen on a computer monitor at the University of Wisconsin–MadisonDarren Hauck / Getty Researchers at Newcastle University in England report they have coaxed ...

AI systems use image recognition and machine learning to assess sperm count, motility, morphology, and movement patterns in ...

A novel screening system developed at Kyoto University enables researchers to investigate sperm cell development and health at the molecular level. The new approach, published in Cell Genomics, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fathers may carry traces of their childhood trauma in their sperm cells, a new study finds. The new research, published Jan. 3 in ...

Researchers have decoded a long-standing mystery of how flowering plants ensure their sperm cells successfully reach the egg for fertilization, according to a recent study published in the journal ...

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This occurs via a type of protein binding that is among the strongest in ...

The background of studying sperm navigation in mammals is somewhat odd. On the one hand, there was a widely accepted belief, albeit unfounded, that there is no sperm navigation in humans and other ...

Clinical data reveals male factors contribute to half of all infertility cases, shifting the focus toward earlier ...