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, ...

Tails take up most of the real estate on a sperm cell. They may have tiny bodies, but fruit flies produce giant sperm. Adult ...

Fruit flies’ giant cells rely on collective motion, pushing against each other to prevent their flagella from tangling ...

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 ...

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, ...

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This occurs via a type of protein binding that is among the strongest in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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