Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Next summer, if all goes to plan, shiploads of iron-rich dust will be distributed over the Pacific Ocean off the ...

Fertility treatments have become a blessing in disguise for couples struggling with fertility issues. Over the years, there have been great advancements in the field, giving individuals the hope they ...

PRESS RELEASE, 9 FEB. 2016 : Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have taken a step closer to understanding the mechanism that leads to the fusion of egg and sperm at fertilisation. Using ...

Sperm unexpectedly inject RNA into the eggs they fertilise, possibly kickstarting crucial development of the embryo, suggests a study of human sperm. The discovery overthrows conventional assumptions ...

MR. THOMAS MEEHAN, one of the most acute and thoughtful of American botanists, has several times during he present year brought before the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences the subject of the ...

An ETH Zurich research team has visualised the fertilisation dynamics of human egg cell for the first time using simulations on high-performance computers. The simulations show how a protein on the ...

Researchers have identified a novel mechanism through which a protein in barley supports female fertility and could help safeguard yield security in the future. A new scientific paper from Teagasc has ...

Purpose: To re-examine the risk of children born by assisted conception developing stage 3 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and to define whether the risk of ROP varies with the method of assisted ...