Fertility expert Dr. Karishma Makhija explains how sperm quality, motility, and DNA health change from 25 to 45, and how lifestyle can make a difference.

Doctors warn Delhi’s toxic air isn’t just harming lungs, it may be lowering sperm count and fertility in men. Breathing city ...

Men’s reproductive health often goes unspoken, leading to myths about fertility. Dr Beena Muktesh clarifies that semen ...

Winter air pollution does not just trouble your throat or lungs. It is also silently affecting your fertility. Breathing in ...

A new study hammers home how the "survival of the nicest" view makes no sense when it comes to evolution, says Jonathan R.

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This occurs via a type of protein binding that is among the strongest in ...

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, ...

As we age, our cells accumulate DNA mutations. If any of these mutations confer a growth advantage to a self-renewing or long-lived progenitor cell, its lineage can expand. The progenitor cells that ...

Harmful changes to DNA in sperm become more common as men age, with a greater risk of older fathers “unknowingly” passing on a genetic mutation to their offspring. Scientists say it is down to a form ...

Off a quiet hallway on the top floor of a building at the University of Osaka in Japan, Katsuhiko Hayashi is hatching a revolution. Human embryo science: can the world’s regulators keep pace? He is on ...

During fertilisation, the egg cell and the sperm are bound together by, among other things, two specific proteins. Researchers have now demonstrated that this represents a special type of binding, ...