Microglia (immune cells) and the RANK protein are essential for triggering puberty and maintaining fertility in the brain.

Reproduction involves making quality gametes – egg and sperm – which are essential for species continuity and therefore have huge implications for human health. The quality of the gametes is not only ...

News footage these days sometimes shows wild horses crowding dry rangelands in the American West or deer wandering through ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute studying male mice engineered with different Y chromosome deletions have uncovered which genes on the mouse Y chromosome regulate the development of sperm ...

Alex Ford receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) UK and European Union Interreg program. He is the Deputy Director of the Centre of Blue Governance at the University of ...

Immune checkpoint inhibition has resulted in significant efficacy across many cancer types, including melanoma. Melanoma is the second most common cancer among those of reproductive age, yet the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 25, 2025) A novel study in Chemosphere finds impacts on male fertility in a bee species (Osmia bicornis) with exposure to sulfoxaflor, a systemic sulfoximine insecticide with ...