Human bodies have to be built from a single egg cell that's fertilized by a sperm cell. Many rounds of cell division occur as the body is developing, and it seems that there are plenty of chances for ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a fundamental protein in human fertilization, called MAIA, which could lead to an improved understanding of infertility. For fertilization to be ...

A simplified model describing the mutual gamete activation during double fertilization in Arabidopsis. Before fertilization EC1 proteins accumulate in secretory vesicles of the egg cell (A). Likewise, ...

Egg fertilization is often described as an epic swim meet: Millions of sperm swim as fast as they can toward the egg until ...

Artistic depiction of how fusion of a sperm with an egg at fertilization triggers a cascade of events that ultimately zips up the filamentous matrix around the egg, thus permanently blocking ...