A team of researchers has found microplastics in all 40 semen samples they examined from healthy men, highlighting the urgent need to study how these tiny particles could affect human reproduction.

A report released in September by the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine points out that almost no research has been done on human reproduction in space, adding that our ...

Telfer, who worked alongside scientists from the Center for Human Reproduction in New York, grew the eggs using samples collected from 10 women who chose to undergo caesarian sections.

"We don't know if they have a direct effect on the capacity of a couple to conceive and carry a baby to term." Researchers make disturbing discovery after examining human reproductive fluid: 'This is ...

Most of the time, when a cell in our bodies divides, each new cell carries a complete set of chromosomes. The cells involved with human reproduction, however, carry only half after division occurs ...

The Japanese experiment may change the science of human reproduction. The first successful in-vitro fertilization, in 1978, made it possible to conceive an embryo outside the body.

LONDON — Scientists have the first time grown human eggs in a laboratory from the earliest stages in ovarian tissue all the way to full maturity. Publishing their result in the journal Molecular ...

Scientists have succeeded for the first time in growing human eggs in a laboratory from the earliest stages in ovarian tissue all the way to full maturity - a scientific step that had previously ...

Humans have become relatively experienced at living and working in space aboard the International Space Station. Now, we're looking forward to the next step: reproduction. Mouse sperm, which was ...

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Human reproduction in space: Mouse sperm experiment on reproduction in space. Professor Teruhiko Wakayama, from the Advanced Biotechnology Centre at the University of Yamanashi, is spearheading a ...