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

It's commonly thought that sperm "race" to the egg, with the winner fertilizing it. But is this really the case?

If the egg or the sperm can somehow influence the identity of the other gamete involved in fertilization, then those ratios could be very different. This striking difference was what caught Nadeau ...

Sperm meets egg: Protein essential for fertilization discovered. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 04 / 140416133253.htm ...

How a sperm and an egg fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works like a lock and key across the animal ...

Insights into Egg Coat Assembly and Egg-Sperm Interaction from the X-Ray Structure of Full-Length ZP3. Cell , 2010; DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.09.041 Cite This Page : ...

The ESRF structural biology beamlines have played a very important role in this pursuit. Back in 2017, they provided the first example of how egg coat and sperm recognize each other at the beginning ...

FERTILIZATION is a complex process. The cytoplasm of the sperm contains NOS, which is activated along with the acrosome reaction by contact with egg jelly (yellow); above, the NOS turns green when ...