Gametes are an organism's reproductive cells. They are also referred to as sex cells. Female gametes are called ova or egg cells, and male gametes are called sperm. Gametes are haploid cells, and each ...

So you have finally found the partner of your dreams—but no matter how hard you try, no children have come along. Could science offer new answers to mate choice and infertility? For several years, ...

This workshop will explore the in vitro derivation of human gametes (eggs and sperm) from stem cells. Sessions will consider scientific and clinical goals motivating research in this field, technical ...

Scientists from Nagoya University, Yokohama City University and Chubu University have developed a system which enables the live imaging of the formation of the female gamete in plants. In flowering ...

A federal government program will reimburse service members if they freeze their gametes while facing combat deployments, hazardous orders or long separations that could affect their plans to have ...

Reprogramming of the epigenome in mammals occurs in both the germline and the early developing embryo. Some regions of the epigenome appear to escape this process. Parentally imprinted genes are not ...

Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and Kobe University discovered populations of female brown algae that reproduce from unfertilized gametes and thrive without males. In a study ...

There are those, politicians, pundits and even a few scientists, who maintain that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know about sex. They assert that men and women are defined by ...

Scientists from Nagoya University, Yokohama City University and Chubu University have developed a system which enables the live imaging of the formation of the female gamete in plants. In flowering ...