Among all the animals on Earth, tiny fruit flies produce some of the longest male reproductive cells, or sperm. Males of the species that typically swarms your indoor trash, Drosophila melanogaster, ...

Sperm cells from Jock could bring the promise of new life thanks to the work of a wildlife charity.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A major transition in evolution is the shift from asexual to sexual reproduction in early organisms. But why would a yeast ...

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 ...

Sperm swims up a chemical gradient to reach the eggiStock In a recent discovery, scientists have identified a key molecule that drives chemo attraction between sperm and egg cells in marine ...

This short film introduces the topic of reproduction and that babies start from an egg and sperm. This series of short films ...

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