Who hasn't seen it before: the view through the microscope in which a sperm penetrates an egg cell and fertilizes it. This fundamental step in procreation happens dynamically and seemingly without ...

If you’ve been trying to conceive for some time but are still getting negative pregnancy tests, then IVF, or in vitro fertilization, may be an option for you. So what is IVF? In short, it’s a ...

The successful fertilization in mammals requires sperm capacitation, acrosome reaction, sperm penetration of the zona pellucida, specific sperm-egg recognition and finally membrane fusion with the egg ...

Table 1 Embryonic developmental consequence of the patients with RTFF during assisted reproduction treatment. To compare the global transcriptome profiles of unfertilized eggs or zygotes among ...

During mammalian reproduction, millions of sperm undertake a journey that only one will finish. This journey to fertilization has been commonly viewed as a race: a sea of sperm competing to get to the ...