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

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 ...

The UK's fertility watchdog, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has revealed that the technology for ...

By about 1900 the observations of Hertwig, Fol, and others were brought together to make the now-familiar picture: a single sperm cell penetrates the egg cell; the nucleus of the sperm merges with ...