Urine is sensitive to bodily changes and can distinguish normozoospermic infertile men from fertile ones through metabolomics. However, urine proteomics has not been studied for monitoring ...

Evidence has led experts to believe that genetics may be accountable for the difficulties that a significant portion of couples face when trying to conceive a child. Because men are just as likely to ...

Testicles of most mammals are cooled in the scrota, and elevated testicular temperatures lead to spermatogenesis failure and male infertility. A research team led by Shosei Yoshida at the National ...

The mitochondrion has long been dubbed as the “powerhouse of the cell,” but there’s still much to learn about its inner workings during development and disease formation. Research recently published ...

Mutations that abolish the activity of luteinizing hormone are rare; they have been reported in five men and one woman. 1–5 The phenotypes of these persons suggest that luteinizing hormone is not ...

Alkylating and platinating agent exposure in childhood cancer survivors is associated with impaired spermatogenesis and azoospermia.

Researchers have unmasked the functioning of a protein involved in DNA repair, ATR, in the meiotic recombination process which takes place during the development of spermatocytes -- sperm precursor ...