After 18 years of infertility, a couple could finally have a baby thanks to artificial intelligence. The father had a rare condition that left him with almost no detectable sperm. Then fertility ...

The sperm tail moves very rapidly in 3D, not from side-to-side in 2D, as it was believed. Source: Image credited to polymaths-lab[dot]com New state-of-the-art 3D microscope technology combined with ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

Update 5/29/2021, 10:15 a.m.: On May 1, 2021, the authors of the study covered in this article asked the journal to retract their work following concerns from outside scientists about the mathematical ...

Who hasn't seen it before: the view through the microscope in which a sperm penetrates an egg cell and fertilizes it. This fundamental step in procreation happens dynamically and seemingly without ...

They're leading in the development of IVG, new fertility technology that could make sperm and eggs from practically any cell in the body. The... Japanese scientists race to create human eggs and sperm ...

What makes one sperm cell — a blob of DNA with a tail — stand out? The selection process is like a microscopic Mr. America contest. By Randi Hutter Epstein This story was originally published on July ...