Important cause of preeclampsia discovered
Cholesterol crystals are the missing piece of the puzzleCredit: Photo: NTNU Despite being the subject of increasing interest for a ...
Tag: Fertility
How to find mutated sperm? Just go FISH
A new test quickly and easily identifies when sperm are carrying chromosomal mutations, and could be applied for men hoping ...
Keeping sperm cells on track
Credit: Gadadhar et al. / Science 2021 One essential component of each eukaryotic cell is the cytoskeleton. Microtubules, tiny tubes ...
New clues to prostate cancer
Why aggressive subtype can resist treatmentCredit: The Hospital Research Foundation Australian research has identified a new mechanism in which prostate ...
New research highlights the importance of the thymus in successful pregnancies
Credit: Ragnar Söderberg Foundation How the immune system adapts to pregnancies has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, findings from an ...
Men over 50 have same success with vasectomy reversal outcomes as younger men
Keck Medicine of USC study reveals that older men who undergo the surgery achieve the same rate of pregnancy as ...
Frozen eggs and ovarian tissue helped women conceive children after breast cancer
Credit: Arthur Marklund Women with breast cancer whose eggs or ovarian tissue were frozen had more children after their diagnosis ...
Collecting sperm from Covid-19 patients
How does Covid-19 affect sperm and thus the next generation´s immune system? Norwegian researchers are collecting sperm to find the ...
NIH awards $465K to George Mason to study fetal environmental exposures, racial disparities
Study will examine how gestational exposure to endocrine disruptors affects fetal outcomes for African Americans and white obstetrical populationsCredit: Michelle ...
Delivering proteins to testes could someday treat male infertility
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c04936 According to the Mayo Clinic, about 15% of couples are infertile, and ...
How an egg cell’s “operating manual” sets the stage for fertility
Genetic instructions immature egg cells go through step by step as they mature into functionality revealed in unprecedented detailCredit: Figure ...
Chromosome defects seen from over-exchange of DNA in sperm and eggs
University of Oregon and Northwestern University biologists show that too many crossover events can increase infertilityCredit: Image courtesy of Diana ...
Buying emergency contraception is legal but not always easy at small, mom-and-pop pharmacies
Credit: West Virginia University About 22 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 44 report having used emergency ...
Repeated pregnancy loss may be tied to the olfactory system
Understanding the connection could lead to a new search for the causes of unexplained spontaneous miscarriageCredit: Weizmann Institute of Science ...