Genetics

Researchers find fertility genes required for sperm stem cells

The underlying cause of male infertility is unknown for 30 percent of cases. In a pair of new studies, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine determined that the reproductive homeobox (RHOX) ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Lithuanian leader vetoes strict IVF law

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on Monday vetoed strict legislation on in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), saying the proposed law favoured by the influential Catholic Church ignores modern medicine.

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Survey of 15,000 women and men reveals scale of infertility

One in eight women and one in ten men have experienced infertility, yet nearly half of them have not sought medical help, according to a study of more than 15,000 women and men in Britain published in Human Reproduction, ...

Medical research

Opioids regulate spermatozoon formation

Infertility has become a major medical and social problem worldwide and due in part to male infertility. Yet the molecular mechanisms involved in spermatogenesis are only now beginning to emerge. A piece of research led by ...

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