Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Next summer, if all goes to plan, shiploads of iron-rich dust will be distributed over the Pacific Ocean off the ...

PRESS RELEASE, 9 FEB. 2016 : Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have taken a step closer to understanding the mechanism that leads to the fusion of egg and sperm at fertilisation. Using ...

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) helps millions of couples to have babies every year. Basically, if we talk about the procedure of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), the doctor takes out the egg, the sperm and ...

MR. THOMAS MEEHAN, one of the most acute and thoughtful of American botanists, has several times during he present year brought before the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences the subject of the ...

Sperm unexpectedly inject RNA into the eggs they fertilise, possibly kickstarting crucial development of the embryo, suggests a study of human sperm. The discovery overthrows conventional assumptions ...

Researchers have identified a novel mechanism through which a protein in barley supports female fertility and could help safeguard yield security in the future. A new scientific paper from Teagasc has ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels have been boosting plant growth, but this “fertilisation effect” has been declining faster than predicted by computer models, according to an analysis of satellite records ...

Purpose: To re-examine the risk of children born by assisted conception developing stage 3 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and to define whether the risk of ROP varies with the method of assisted ...