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A research team from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) has developed the world's first artificial intelligence (AI) model ...

How a sperm and an egg fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal ...

After the egg has been fertilized by a sperm, the surrounding egg coat tightens, mechanically preventing the entry of additional sperm and the ensuing death of the embryo. This is according to a new ...

The process of mammalian fertilization entails a finely orchestrated sequence of events whereby a capacitated spermatozoon navigates the female reproductive tract, binds to and penetrates the egg’s ...

Ascidian fertilization has long served as a tractable model for understanding fundamental mechanisms of gamete recognition, binding and fusion in chordates. Spermatozoa released into seawater are ...