WASHINGTON - As humankind moves toward the goal of establishing a long-term presence on the moon and Mars, the question of ...

A new experiment showed that humans may be able to reproduce in space, paving the way for self-sustaining colonies.

Floating in near-weightless conditions can be disorienting for even the most experienced astronauts. Male reproductive ...

They decided to test their hypothesis with a drug known as JQ1. This drug was originally developed as a cancer treatment, and ...

Space is big, empty, and apparently very confusing if you’re a sperm cell. According to a new study from the University of ...

Scientists have found that sperm in space can’t find their direction during their pursuit to fertilize an egg.

Sperm cells are known to prefer cooler temperatures. For quite some time, a puzzling question for scientists has been: how do temperature-sensitive swimmers actually operate effectively within the ...

The latest study from the Sharma Lab makes the mechanisms of how epigenetic information is established in sperm cells, and how that encoding affects offspring health, a little less of a scientific ...

New work from UC Davis and the University of Utah shows how the 3D structure of DNA inside a germ cell commits it to develop into a sperm cell. The discovery could improve understanding of fertility ...