In vitro fertilization is a process where scientists join a sperm and and egg outside of the female’s body in a controlled environment to fertilize the egg and create an embryo, which is then inserted ...

The process of mammalian fertilization entails a finely orchestrated sequence of events whereby a capacitated spermatozoon navigates the female reproductive tract, binds to and penetrates the egg’s ...

Recently, Emma Lavaut and her colleagues from Sorbonne University and Universidad Austral de Chile found that a species of red seaweed, Gracilaria gracilis, uses the isopod crustacean Idotea balthica ...

Ascidian fertilization has long served as a tractable model for understanding fundamental mechanisms of gamete recognition, binding and fusion in chordates. Spermatozoa released into seawater are ...