A couple previously told their only route to parenthood was sperm donation are now expecting a baby of their own, following a world-first fertility breakthrough developed at AVENUES.

ANY biologically aware parent who has started talking about the birds and the bees will have realised halfway through that what they are really discussing is flowers. Bees carry pollen grains from one ...

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Prof Richard Betts is head of climate impacts research at the Met Office Hadley Centre and chair in climate impacts at the University of Exeter. But while the general principles of CO 2 fertilisation ...

For decades, scientists have portrayed sperm as active fighters battling their way towards a passive egg. But new research suggest eggs aren't as passive as one thought. Researchers in Seattle claim a ...

Mature ova are released from the ovary into the oviduct where they may be fertilised by sperm to form a zygote. In humans, fertilisation happens inside the woman’s body. This is a process called ...