Up until the 1950s, scientists were scratching their heads trying to figure out why their experiments using perfectly healthy eggs and sperm to develop in-vitro fertilization (IVF) were unsuccessful.

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been proven to have a crucial role in intercellular communication and have attracted significant attention in the physiology of reproduction because of their multiple ...

Ejaculated mammalian sperm must undergo a series of biochemical changes called capacitation to gain fertilizing competence. Mounting evidence on protein synthesis during capacitation contradicts the ...