Objective: This prospective study aimed to examine the effect of pre-operative sperm DFI on varicocelectomy success. Material and methods: A total of 51 infertile men with unilateral clinical VC who ...

How much of our genome really matters? Some argue that because most of our DNA is active, it must be doing something important. Others say even random DNA would be highly active. This has now been put ...

Male factors account for up to 50% of infertility cases worldwide. Among the various etiologies, sperm DNA damage has received increasing attention through extensive research on sperm function tests.

On Tuesday, Google announced a new open protocol for purchases initiated by AI agents — automated software programs that can shop and make decisions on behalf of users — with backing from more than 60 ...

Powered by gene editing advances like CRISPR and base editing, cell and gene therapy (CGT) is delivering on the promise of genomic medicine. First-generation CAR T-cell therapies, for example, have ...

Eight healthy babies have been born in the U.K. using a new IVF technique that successfully reduced their risk of inheriting genetic diseases from their mothers, the people behind a world-first trial ...

Ireland’s economy is deeply connected to the global trade network and relies on foreign direct investment (FDI), notably from the US. This paper presents a framework to estimate the impact of ...

DNA fragmentation is a crucial first step in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) workflows—from Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) to ChIP-seq and Minimal Residual Disease ...

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Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque. By Carl Zimmer When Qiaomei Fu discovered a new ...