Ultrastructure expansion microscopy of murine male germ cells reveals the fine molecular structures of centrioles (shown in the enlarged image). DNA is stained in blue, and the chromosome axis in red.

July 10, 2006 — -- The BBC is reporting that scientists in Germany have not only grown sperm from the embryonic stems cells of mice, but that the sperm was capable of producing offspring. While ...

The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That figure rose to between 3 and 5 per cent in middle-aged men (43 to 58 years) ...

Two new landmark studies show how a seeming tangle of DNA is actually organized into a structure that coordinates thousands of genes to form a sperm cell. The work, published March 3 as two papers in ...

Imagine a future where a diagnosis of untreatable male infertility is no longer the end of the road – because science has found a way to produce human sperm from lab-engineered testicular tissue. This ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

In the United States, an estimated 645,000 men ages 20 to 50 have azoospermia, a condition in which no sperm are present in their ejaculate. Now, scientists are testing a potential treatment: ...

A groundbreaking experiment transforms skin cells into egg-like cells, offering hope for infertility treatments amidst ...