Female cockroaches can reproduce for years and have several generations of all-female young - without needing a single male, according to a new study. Japanese scientists used 15 virgin females to ...

Reproduction involves making quality gametes – egg and sperm – which are essential for species continuity and therefore have huge implications for human health. The quality of the gametes is not only ...

Male and female reproductive systems allow human reproduction. Fertilisation occurs when a sperm and egg join to form an embryo. An embryo develops into an unborn baby in the uterus during pregnancy.

Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton mapped the ...

The female body has the final say on which sperm fertilises its eggs to avoid inbreeding and create healthy babies, scientists have discovered. Researchers from Finland explored how individual women's ...

Scientists chart a comprehensive cell atlas of the developing human reproductive system, offering new clues into congenital disorders.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today. However, mountain ...

Reproduction is a complicated process controlled by extra- and intracellular regulators of brain chemistry and gonadotropins. And plant molecules can affect these processes at every level. A recent ...

Phthalates are a ubiquitous family of chemicals that are used every day. In a new study, researchers have investigated how these compounds affect tissue development in the reproductive systems of ...

Both usually produce few young at one time, and ensure their survival by caring for them. Unlike mammals, birds lay eggs and initial stages of development occur outside the mother’s body. Reproductive ...