Then researchers placed blastoids and embryos donated after infertility treatments inside the little device and watched it ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Could temperature be the real trigger behind male fertility? A new study from Washington University in St. Louis suggests exactly that—and its findings could reshape our understanding of how life ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on Earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore. The standard sperm-meets-egg story posits ...

"The infection of our body cells is like a dance between virus and cell," suggested Yohei Yamauchi at ETH Zurich. With their new system, the team watched how single flu virus particles move across the ...

What is mediastinal seminoma? What this rare chest cancer means and how treatment works with high survival rates.

Microscopic views of aluminum alloys after 3D printing. Row 1: How the metal melts and solidifies in layers. Row 2: The internal grain structure that affects strength. Row 3: Tiny particles inside the ...

Some men are having vast numbers of children through sperm donation. This week the BBC reported on a man whose sperm contained a genetic mutation that dramatically raises the risk of cancer for some ...

Microscopic view of the drone’s brain (purple): The neurons belonging to the Fru circuit, which is involved in the animals’ begging behaviour, are marked in green. (Image: HHU/Institute of ...