In the early 1950s, Austin and Chang independently described the changes that are
required for the sperm to fertilize oocytes in vivo. These changes were originally grouped …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced rapid growth over the past few years, moving from
the experimental to the implementation phase in various fields, including medicine …

Infection of pregnant women with Zika virus (ZIKV) can cause congenital malformations
including microcephaly, which has focused global attention on this emerging pathogen. In …

CRISPR/Cas mediated genome editing has been successfully demonstrated in mammalian
cells and further applications for generating mutant mice were reported by injecting …

Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine has gained a lot of momentum in the last decades and
has been applied to various fields of medicine. Advances in computer science, medical …

Mammalian sperm must undergo a series of biochemical and physiological modifications,
collectively called capacitation, in the female reproductive tract prior to the acrosome …

Sperm− oocyte membrane fusion is one of the most important events for fertilization. So far,
IZUMO1 and Fertilization Influencing Membrane Protein (FIMP) on the sperm membrane …

Infertility rates and the number of couples seeking fertility care have increased worldwide
over the past few decades. Over 2.5 million cycles of assisted reproductive technologies are …

Abstract Pachytene PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), which comprise> 80% of small RNAs
in the adult mouse testis, have been proposed to bind and regulate target RNAs like …

Fertilization is the fundamental process that initiates the development of a new individual in
all sexually reproducing species. Despite its importance, our understanding of the molecular …