Mature ova are released from the ovary into the oviduct where they may be fertilised by sperm to form a zygote. In humans, fertilisation happens inside the woman’s body. This is a process called ...

An ETH Zurich research team has visualised the fertilisation dynamics of human egg cell for the first time using simulations on high-performance computers. The simulations show how a protein on the ...

This is the story of your creation. It began with a sperm, the smallest cell in the human body, fusing with the biggest cell… an egg. Every day, the human male produces hundreds of millions of DNA ...

Fertilisation might sound like a science class topic. But even if you haven’t thought much about it, a lot is happening inside your body long before a pregnancy test could show any result. Your eggs ...

IVF is one of several techniques that exist to help people conceive when they have problems with fertility. Having a baby is not always easy and you can feel desperate if you don’t conceive quite as ...