Two new studies uncover how DNA folding controls sperm cell development. Researchers identified proteins that rearrange genomic architecture, setting cellular memory and fate. This 3D genome mapping ...

Researchers have identified an enzyme essential for the process of male meiosis, the type of cell division that produces sperm. The protein, SKP1, controls one of the key transitions in meiosis.

Imagine a future where a diagnosis of untreatable male infertility is no longer the end of the road – because science has ...

MSCI is essential for sperm formation, or spermatogenesis ... and Life Sciences), interim director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and professor in the Department of ...

Next, she identifies a sperm with a mix of abnormalities and warns that agglutination—when sperm cells stick together ... midpiece, tail formation and length, is key when it comes to good ...

These stem cells are regulated by evolutionary highly conserved genes, which in humans are usually only active in the formation of egg and sperm cells, but give ancient animal phyla such as ...

which are the cells responsible for the formation of the tubules in the testicle, appear in red and germ cells, which will produce the sperm cells, appear in green. Germ cells always stay close ...

The behavior of sperm cells is due, in part, to the individual DNA make-up of these cells, rather than only to the genetics of males, finds a team of scientists. Its results, which provide a new ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The sperm portion of that cocktail consists of developed or mature male sex cells that can fertilize a mature female sex cell - called an ...