The injunction to know yourself is an ancient one. Oedipus the King, a 2½-millennium-old play, was about the eternal human drive to seek the truth of oneself at all costs. It was the story of an ...

The book “Advances in Assisted Reproduction Technologies” captures the current and recent advances in assisted reproduction technology in humans and livestock in an easy and comprehensive way for the ...

Male and female reproductive systems allow human reproduction. Fertilisation occurs when a sperm and egg join to form an embryo. An embryo develops into an unborn baby in the uterus during pregnancy.

BIOLOGY teachers are soon going to be confronted with the problem of bringing up to date text-books on a number of subjects, particularly those which have not previously been well presented to the ...

This has implications for their role within human reproduction. Failure of chromosomal organization within human egg and sperm cells result in miscarriages and infertility. However, the mechanisms ...

Since in many species sperm is the male's only contribution to reproduction, biologists have long puzzled about why evolutionary selection, known for its ruthless efficiency, allows them to exist. Now ...