Overweight and obesity are associated with a low sperm quality
Is a systematic review and meta-analysis of all the studies published to date. These results suggest that overweight/obesity prevention should ...
Tag: Fertility
Discovery of novel autoantibody that is a major risk factor for recurrent pregnancy loss
Credit: Kobe University A research group centered around Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine's Professor YAMADA Hideto and Associate Professor ...
Label-free imaging helps predict reproductive outcomes
Credit: Photo courtesy the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and ...
Healthy offspring from testicular tissue plantation in mice: Retinoic acid key
Credit: Copyright © 2020, Springer Nature, licensed under cc by 4.0 One in fifty births in Japan are said to ...
Rochester community initiative increases teenage use of effective contraception
A University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) partnership resulted in adoption of long-acting reversible contraception five-times greater than the US ...
A novel sperm selection technology to increase success rates of in vitro fertilization
LEFT: Mouse sperm collected by a conventional cell sorter. Motility cannot be maintained and sperm cannot advance. Motile sperm are ...
New research examines links between religion and parental support from non-family members
Credit: University of Otago "Be fruitful and multiply" says the Bible, and worldwide religious people tend to have more children ...
How Toxoplasma parasites glide so swiftly (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society If you're a cat owner, you might have heard of Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan that sometimes ...
Human embryo-like model created from human stem cells
Credit: Naomi Moris Scientists from the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Hubrecht Institute in The Netherlands, have developed ...
Pre-term deliveries due to COVID-19 could be avoided by studying EHRs
Credit: Anup Challa Using electronic health record (EHR) data to simulate drug trials for pregnant patients could one day offer ...
Not children, but ‘super-happy families’ the aim of assisted reproduction
Credit: Linköping University Researcher Judith Lind has studied how staff at fertility clinics view the assessments that childless couples and ...
Discovery of a novel gene involved in DNA damage repair and male fertility
Clarifying the mechanisms for meiotic recombination in sperm productionCredit: Dr. Kei-ichiro Ishiguro A research group from the Institute of Molecular ...
High-strain exercise linked to very early pregnancy loss
UMass Amherst scientists advance research in physical activity and the earliest stages of pregnancyCredit: UMass Amherst In women with a ...
uOttawa researchers discover new sex hormone
New hormone that stimulates sexual functions in fish could lead to novel infertility treatments in humansCredit: Pixabay When University of ...
OU Reproductive Medicine physician receives grant to further study frozen embryo transfers
Credit: OU Medicine OKLAHOMA CITY - For couples who are unable to conceive a child on their own, in vitro ...
Accurate 3D imaging of sperm cells moving at top speed could improve IVF treatments
New Tel Aviv University technology allows clinicians to identify and select better-quality sperm, potentially increasing chances of pregnancy and a ...
Antioxidant reverses damage to fertility caused by exposure to bisphenol A
A study shows that administering coenzyme Q10 reverses damage done to germinative cells by BPA, a contaminant found in many ...
Evaluating embryo quality with ultrasensitive protein detection
Evaluating embryos by detecting secreted proteins using microfluidic droplets and multicolor fluorescenceCredit: Zeng Yong WASHINGTON, April 7, 2020 -- Infertility ...
Psychiatric disorders after first birth reduce likelihood of subsequent children
Credit: Human Reproduction Women who suffer from psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, mania and schizophrenia following the live birth ...
A critical enzyme for sperm formation could be a target for treating male infertility
The protein, SKP1, drives a key transition step in male meiosis, the type of cell division process that results in ...
