The move is part of the government's plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate ...

USDA combats flesh-eating New World Screwworm by breeding sterilized flies for release over Mexico and Texas, with a new fly ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico ...

For 50 years, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has been preserving animals' genetic material in its Frozen Zoo, and ...

In her new book "The Stronger Sex," science journalist Starre Vartan dispels myths and misconceptions about the female body.

More women than ever are carrying babies conceived with someone else's egg—but few are told that this might carry greater ...

While animal eggs await fertilization, their cell cycle needs to be halted. The molecule responsible for this arrest ? the cytostatic factor ? was first described in 1971. But its identity was not ...

You might know the basics of fertilization, but what really occurs in the body? For example, where does fertilization occur, exactly? We answer this and more.