What came first, the chicken or the egg? If we’re talking about eggs in general, then the latter, but a new study of an ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

Your body goes through significant changes each month during pregnancy. Here is everything you should know and expect.

When fertilization occurs, male and female gametes join creating a zygote. Donors may donate gametes, sperm or egg, to a bank or a person seeking to have a child. The legal arrangement and ...

How long does it take for fertilization to happen is one of the most important questions to ask before undergoing ...

A setting of 432 hertz is said to induce a relaxed state and sleep while reducing stress and enhancing emotional balance. Some propose that frequency can stimulate a sense of interconnectedness and ...

This way, when the sperm, carrying either an X or a Y, fuses with the egg, carrying an X, during fertilization, the resulting zygote has the right number of chromosomes and a mix of genetic ...

Now the fused cell is a zygote and ready to grow into a new animal. In earlier research, scientists had found four proteins on mammal sperm that are also present on fish sperm and are needed for ...

I encourage you to vote for your neighbor, for it is the only way we cast the right vote for “us.," Michael Friday says.

From third base (covered) to shortstop (not so much), ranking the Giants' biggest areas of need at the start of the offseason ...

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 ...