New studies show how DNA crossovers can drive healthy, abnormal sperm, egg cell division
In the famous words of movie character Forrest Gump, "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get."
In the famous words of movie character Forrest Gump, "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get."
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 4, 2020
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Although they do it differently than humans, plants also have memories. For example, many plants can sense and remember prolonged cold in the Winter to ensure they flower at the right time during the Spring. This so-called ...
Plants & Animals
May 14, 2020
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Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers have developed a safe and accurate 3-D imaging method to identify sperm cells moving at a high speed.
Cell & Microbiology
May 7, 2020
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New research from the University of British Columbia and North Carolina State University could help scientists track how climate change is impacting the birds and the bees... of honey bees.
Plants & Animals
Apr 27, 2020
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While some of our body's cells divide in a matter of hours, the process of making sperm, meiosis, alone takes about 14 days from start to finish. And fully six of those days are spent in the stage known as the pachytene, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 25, 2020
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A new study on how and when the precursors to eggs and sperm are formed during development could help pave the way for generating egg and sperm cells in the lab to treat infertility.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2020
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Maturing sperm cells turn on most of their genes, not to follow their genetic instructions like normal, but instead to repair DNA before passing it to the next generation, a new study finds.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 23, 2020
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How do female insects manage to keep sperm fresh for months after mating? This has been a central question for the sperm biologists of the Chair of Applied Zoology headed by Prof. Dr. Klaus Reinhardt. Now the scientists have ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 15, 2020
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Every tenth couple worldwide is affected by infertility. The reasons for this are manifold, but mostly well researched. Nevertheless, about fifteen percent of cases remain unexplained. A team of biologists at TU Dresden has ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 29, 2019
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Nature's most common swimmers are single-celled organisms such as microalgae that swim toward light sources, and sperm cells that swim toward an ovum. For a physicist, cells are simply biochemical machines, which must obey ...
General Physics
Oct 29, 2019
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