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 ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a fundamental protein in human fertilization, called MAIA, which could lead to an improved understanding of infertility. For fertilization to be ...

Who hasn't seen it before: the view through the microscope in which a sperm penetrates an egg cell and fertilizes it. This fundamental step in procreation happens dynamically and seemingly without ...

A research team from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has developed the world's first artificial intelligence (AI) model ...

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 ...