Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fathers may carry traces of their childhood trauma in their sperm cells, a new study finds. The new research, published Jan. 3 in ...

New work from UC Davis and the University of Utah shows how the 3D structure of DNA inside a germ cell commits it to develop into a sperm cell. The discovery could improve understanding of fertility ...

Researchers often use a nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) to study human genetics .. | Cell And ...

Two new landmark studies show how a seeming tangle of DNA is actually organized into a structure that coordinates thousands of genes to form a sperm cell. The work, published March 3 as two papers in ...

Learn more about the DNA and RNA that sperm carry and how they may suddenly change during midlife.

According to research from a team at the University of Utah Health and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, ...

Increasing paternal age has been linked to elevated health risks for the next generation, including higher risks of obesity ...

Mounting evidence from research on nematodes to mice indicate that a father's environment, such as what he eats or if he is exposed to stress or toxicants, can lead to metabolic and behavioral ...

New research shows how sperm RNA changes as men age, revealing a biological shift that may affect reproduction and child ...

First it was human embryos. Now scientists are trying to develop another way to modify human DNA that can be passed on to future generations, NPR has learned. Reproductive biologists at Weill Cornell ...

While men may be able to have children much later than women, doing so could come with an increased risk of inherited disease for their children. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute have ...