Sexual reproduction involves the joining of two sex cells (gametes) – the sperm (male gamete) and the egg/ovum (female gamete) to make a baby. Fertilisation is the fusion of a haploid sperm nucleus ...

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

The male and female reproductive systems have different roles but together allow the combination of DNA of the egg and sperm that results in the development of new life. Diabetes can affect both the ...

Mapping the human reproductive system offers new clues into conditions affecting reproductive organs and the environmental ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialize to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and ...