Scientists in Japan are at the forefront of one the most controversial areas of biomedical research: creating sperm and eggs in the laboratory from practically any cell in the body. Well, it's not ...

Researchers meticulously examined the gametogenesis of budding yeast, a process involving meiosis and spore formation, using live imaging techniques. Their findings revealed that during sporulation, ...

Figure 1: Characterization of met1 mutants. Figure 3: Maintenance of methylation in somatic tissues of met1 heterozygotes and its loss during gametogenesis. The observed epigenetic segregation ...

Infertility affects approximately 1 in 6 people in their lifetime worldwide according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Infertility - as defined by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine ...

A new report provides an overview of the legal, ethical, and policy questions raised by in vitro gametogenesis (IVG)—the creation of lab-grown eggs and sperm. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Since Louise Brown, the first IVF baby in the world, was born in 1978, millions of infertile couples have been able to become parents. In past decades, the field of reproductive medicine has witnessed ...

In plants, the role of TRAF-like proteins with meprin and the TRAF homology (MATH) domain is far from clear. In animals, these proteins serve as adapter molecules to mediate signal transduction from ...

Until recently, the only way to make eggs or sperm was the old-fashioned way: in the ovaries and testes. In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to use cells from almost any part of the body ...

Gametogenesis is a fundamental aspect of sexual reproduction in eukaryotes. In the unicellular fungi Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast) and Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast), where this ...

Julian Koplin receives research funding from Ferring Pharmaceuticals for an unrelated project. Neera Bhatia receives funding from UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council for an unrelated project.