Human sperm have long been a subject of fascination—not just for their role in fertilization, but for their remarkable ability to navigate through some of the most viscous environments in the body.
In one of the most surprising innovations in medical technology, scientists have created tiny, remote-controlled “sperm-bots” that could one day swim through the human body to deliver drugs, diagnose ...
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 ...
New research shows how sperm RNA changes as men age, revealing a biological shift that may affect reproduction and child ...
Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. The standard sperm-meets-egg story posits ...