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 ...

As a patient at the Utah Center for Reproductive Medicine, you can expect to receive the highest quality of care for your IVF treatment. Before you begin IVF, you will go through a fertility ...

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

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 ...

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 ...