New MAIA protein, named after the Greek goddess of motherhood, helps to draw the sperm into the egg cytoplasm for completion of fertilisation Infertility is unexplained in more than half of people who ...

Human bodies have to be built from a single egg cell that's fertilized by a sperm cell. Many rounds of cell division occur as the body is developing, and it seems that there are plenty of chances for ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill receives its second reading in the House of Commons on Monday. Here are some key facts about the bill: -- The bill updates laws on ...

Scientists have discovered that genes in human embryos rapidly become active after fertilization, opening a new window onto the start of human embryonic life. The finding that some genes are active ...

Scientists have discovered a new protein which helps sperm fuse to an egg and is fundamental for human fertilization. The new protein, named MAIA after the Greek goddess of motherhood, could be ...

Concerned by the speed of research, policymakers are looking for alternative ways to establish rules on genome editing and other technologies. Outside the Third International Summit on Human Genome ...

Preserving the distinction between research purposes and clinical applications, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), a U.K. regulatory body, has approved the use of CRISPR gene ...

Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa yesterday said Lagos deserved a law on surrogacy, human fertilisation and other related areas. He spoke during a stakeholders’ meeting on “A Bill ...

In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a “fairy tale” rooted in ...

The finding that some genes are active from the get-go challenges the textbook view that genes don't become active in human embryos until they are made up of four-to-eight cells, two or three days ...