The world is now swimming in so many synthetic chemicals, some scientists think we have already breached our planet's safe ...
Earlier this month, a sixth round of United Nations-convened talks to address the plastics crisis fell apart. Since 2022, countries have worked to reach an agreement on a legally binding plastic ...
From what we eat to what we breathe in, exposure to microplastics is constant. Now, experts are looking at what that means ...
Implications for human fertility research In humans, SIX6OS1 is the equivalent gene of SCEP3, but mutations in humans are difficult to study because cellular errors lead to programmed cell death, ...
Scientists have identified a Neanderthal-derived gene that increases fertility in modern humans by enhancing progesterone ...
The soil roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has just 959 cells and a body that is mostly gut and reproductive organs. Yet its reproduction is similar enough to ours that scientists like Francis McNally ...
The study is published online in Science. It is led by Eva González-Suárez, researcher at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre. The team has unexpectedly discovered that cells from the brain ...
The male reproductive tract is a specialized environment that is inhabited by a diverse microbiota. Semen, which contains secretions from multiple glands and the testes, serves as a convergence point ...
NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...