but the egg is not dead, and can be woken up after taking out from liquid nitrogen and rehydrating it,” she said. The revived cell can then be fertilised or fused with a sperm and a pregnancy can be ...

A team of researchers from Monash University has uncovered how swimming sperm create corkscrew-shaped fluid vortices that help propel them forward, improving their chances of reaching the egg. The ...

Parenting coach, Wendy Ologe who wrote on “The Dark Side of Nigeria’s Egg Harvesting Industry: A Silent Exploitation of Young ...

Women who decide to have children in middle age depend on sperm and egg resiliency. Part of germ cell (also known as egg cells and sperm cells) resilience depends on a functional piRNA pathway to ...

Monash researchers have discovered that swimming sperm create swirling fluid ... them an extra boost in the race to the egg. The study, published in Cell Reports Physical Science, reveals that ...

Kanazawa University and colleagues have achieved a breakthrough in understanding sperm DNA packaging. Using high-speed atomic ...

The study, now published in Cell, reveals that no single master ... in the initial organization of their nucleus. When the egg and sperm fuse, a comprehensive reorganization of DNA begins within ...

Flowering plants produce pollen containing two sperm cells: one fertilizes the egg and the other fertilizes the ‘central cell’, which is a large cell that is contained in the same structure ...

When the egg and sperm fuse, a comprehensive reorganization of DNA begins ... “We wanted to understand how these epigenetic programs influence gene activity and ensure that the cell correctly executes ...

In mammals, these cells are called gametes and are represented by sperm cells and egg cells. When two haploid cells join (fertilization), a new diploid cell results, and it grows into a new individual ...

An international research team has provided a detailed insight into how the spatial organization of genetic material is established in the cell nucleus ... When the egg and sperm fuse, a ...

The first day of your period marks the beginning of your cycle, which is the number of days between the start of one period ...