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 new study has investigated whether air pollution may affect men’s sperm cells.

Air pollution may switch off genes that make healthy sperm, scientists have discovered. Previous studies have shown that men ...

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 ...

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 cells from a 42-year-old gorilla could bring the promise of new life thanks to the work of a wildlife charity. Jock, a ...

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 say the technology creates detailed 3D maps of live sperm cells without damaging them.

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 ...