UCLA graduate student Jeffrey Riffell and UCLA biology professor Richard Zimmer report the first experimental test on the role of small-scale physics as it influences the interactions between sperm ...

Scientists are developing a new way to help infertile women have babies. A mature cell from the woman's body is merged with a chromosome-free egg, to which sperm is later added. The scientists insist ...

Scientists have discovered a new protein which helps sperm fuse to an egg and is fundamental for human fertilization. The new protein, named MAIA after the Greek goddess of motherhood, could be ...