Male infertility is a major issue worldwide and its causes remain unclear. Now, an international team of researchers led by ...

Researchers have found that germ cells, which develop into eggs and sperm, drive sex-dependent differences in lifespan in vertebrates. Female and male germ cells increase and reduce lifespan, ...

In the absence of TLE6, the structural integrity of SCMC is compromised, and consequently cell division in the embryo fails after the two-cell stage, resulting in embryo fragmentation and death. There ...

Chemotherapy can significantly affect your fertility. But there are steps you can take to help preserve your sperm health in case you want to have a child later in life after chemotherapy.

A large Nordic study has provided new evidence on the role of high-dose chemotherapy (HDCT) with autologous stem-cell support ...

Women with a type of ovarian cancer known as germ cell tumors have a worse prognosis than men with similar tumors, i.e. testicular cancer. After five years with the disease, 98 percent of men were ...

How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still working hard to understand precisely how a single, ...

Osaka, Japan – Women live longer than men. This isn’t unique to humans, either; we see this trend in a wide range of other animals. Biologists have theorized that the discrepancy in life expectancy ...