Even within the world of egg-laying animals, there is an incredible variety of reproductive strategies. Some species mate before the female lays her eggs, ensuring they are fertilized internally, ...
An artificial-intelligence tool honoured by one of this year’s Nobel prizes has revealed intimate details of the molecular meet-cute between sperm and eggs. The AlphaFold program, which predicts ...
In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm ...