Screw-shaped bird sperm swim faster — but it comes at a cost
Credit: Hanna Støstad The research was part of the thesis of PhD student Hanna Nyborg Støstad, investigating the peculiar spiral ...
Tag: Developmental/Reproductive Biology
A step toward recovering reproduction in girls who survive childhood cancer
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Credit: Daniel Stahler For years, scientists have assumed that when top predators are reintroduced to an ecosystem, the effects are ...
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Experimental Biology highlights — Environment and public health
New research on the natural world, environmental exposures, opioids and pregnancy Embargoed press materials are now available for the Experimental ...
Study identifies new approach to repairing damaged peripheral nervous system
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Machine learning for measuring roots
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Complex artefacts don’t prove brilliance of our ancestors
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Is conception by IVF associated with childhood cancer risk?
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Uterine artery embolization can be considered for well controlled symptomatic leiomyomas
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Smoking and pre-eclampsia may cause fertility problems for offspring, study suggests
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A bad bout of flu triggers ‘taste bud cells’ to grow in the lungs
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Illinois study identifies a key to soybean cyst nematode growth
Credit: Nathan Schroeder, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The soybean cyst nematode, one of the crop's most destructive pests, ...
Novel study links fetal exposure to nicotine and sudden infant death syndrome
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