All new babies start as an egg and a sperm, but where do those two cells come from in the first place? Your reproductive organs produce the sex cells that make a baby. Sperm cells begin their life ...

Stem cell engineering and CRISPR were used to create mice with two male parents. Could we use this technique on humans?

The chromosomes of sperm cells are tightly packaged into a complex of DNA and protamines. Converting the chromatin from a nucleohistone to a nucleoprotamine structure may serve both biophysical ...

Fathers exposed to high stress in childhood had different epigenetic markers that may affect their offspring, though more ...

sperm, eggs, nerve cells, muscle cells, ciliated cells, and villi. Get it, lark? Anyone…? Okay let's move on. An animal cell is made of three main parts a nucleus, cell membrane and cytoplasm ...

Scientists have unveiled a link between childhood stress and epigenetic changes in sperm cells that could affect future generations. Published in Molecular Psychiatry, the study indicates that ...

Surprisingly, this occurs right within our bodies. Human sperm cells have unique characteristics, with a peculiar blob-like head and an extraordinarily long tail. Despite their appearance ...

Fathers may carry traces of their childhood trauma in their sperm cells, a new study finds ... used to build the proteins and molecules that make up our bodies — is read. Epigenetics doesn ...

although sperm and eggs cannot be immediately produced. “Cells that will become the basis of sperm and eggs are formed in a fetus even before various organs are formed,” said Akutsu ...