Egg and sperm cells (also known as gametes) and their precursors.
Rat testicle stem cells that were frozen for 23 years and then grafted onto infertile mice, have been shown to produce viable sperm...
Recently the 'reality' television star Kourtney Kardashian claimed that the IVF treatment she received had 'put her into the menopause' in the trailer for a new series of 'Meet the Kardashians'...
Functional sperm have been developed in vitro from rat stem cells and used to fertilise eggs and produce healthy offspring for the first time...
Air pollution, in the form of particulate matter exposure, has been associated with reduced sperm quality...
Gene expression during early development of primordial germ cells is sex-specific...
Cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy often cause substantial loss of the cells responsible for creating gametes, meaning they can cause patients to become infertile...
Researchers in Japan have successfully demonstrated the development of functional sperm cells that developed into fertile offspring from pluripotent embryonic stem cells, in mice...
Researchers have successfully decoded the human embryogenesis process by tracking somatic mutations in adult tissues.
Gene variants affecting a single gene have been identified in men who do not produce sperm, giving some insight into genetic control of sperm production...
An in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) breakthrough has been achieved as mouse stem cells have been used to create egg cells that have successfully developed into live mice when used in IVF...
