Hertwig and his brother Oscar were famous for their description in 1875 of fertilization as a cellular process involving the fusion of an egg cell and a spermatozoan and the fusion of their nuclei.

A new technology developed at Tel Aviv University and implemented at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon has demonstrated a ...

A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These cells, theoretically able to morph into any tissue in the human body, ...

Scientists in China have manipulated embryonic stem cells to create laboratory mice with two male parents that managed to ...

The Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana kicked off 2025 with a mysterious birth. A swell shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) pup ...

We expect our results to provide tools to better understand membrane fusion and control the process of fertilization." Acrosomal exocytosis involves the fusion ... As a result, enzymes contained in ...

A research group led by Wei Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has created mice born from two male parents and capable of ...

A study published in PeerJ unveils refined techniques for in vitro fertilization (IVF) in four key Caribbean coral species, ...

(Fun fact: Human egg cells are gigantic compared to the other ... the next step in IVF (and how the procedure gets its name) is the fertilization of the egg in a lab. Quickly after the eggs ...