In-vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, is a concept that sounds like science fiction but is slowly becoming a real possibility. Imagine creating eggs or sperm from skin cells, all outside the body. It’s a ...

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This occurs via a type of protein binding that is among the strongest in ...

The latest study from the Sharma Lab makes the mechanisms of how epigenetic information is established in sperm cells, and how that encoding affects offspring health, a little less of a scientific ...