They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...

A mouse study may pave the way for new approaches to contraception and infertility treatment. Sperm are surprisingly picky ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

This valuable study reports the conservation of sperm-egg envelope binding by demonstrating successful recognition of the micropyle in fish eggs by the mouse sperm. However, the evidence supporting ...

A physics-based sperm-screening technique could offer a more accurate at-home test for people trying to conceive ...

Ms. Petrova is a Russian scientist who works in a lab at Harvard Medical School. She told her story through a Times Opinion ...

Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team from the Helmholtz Center for ...

Our brain is a complex organ. Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network, constantly processing signals, enabling us to recall memories or to move our bodies.

WashU Medicine researcher Polina Lishko, a BJC Investigator and professor of cell biology and physiology, has shown in mice that sperm have a temperature-controlled switch that changes their movements ...

‘I look at sperm all day under the microscope and these are not human ... of sperm in his lab in which very different-looking cells wiggled about in seemingly random directions.

United States — A commentator yells excitedly as hundreds of spectators stand glued to a video of a racecourse — but the athletes they are rooting for are actually tiny sperm cells.