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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fathers may carry traces of their childhood trauma in their sperm cells, a new study finds. The new research, published Jan. 3 in ...

Their newly tested contraceptive drug proved to be effective, safe, and reversible in male mice. Within six weeks of stopping ...

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 ...

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Researchers often use a nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) to study human genetics because at the molecular level, we have a lot in common with these organisms. Scientists used a ...

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

Germ cells pass DNA to the next generation and undergo massive reorganization of their DNA packaging to generate totipotency, or the ability to differentiate into any cell type. Understanding the ...

The study's main contributors include (L-R) graduate student Joshua Shaffer, professor Upasna Sharma, and postdoc Alka Gupta. (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta) The pioneering research of UC Santa Cruz’s ...