Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is increasingly being used to facilitate conception in both clinical and veterinary medicine. Infertility rates are on the rise amongst the global human ...

Human beings would probably be known as pilosals rather than mammals if Carl Linnaeus had not been a proponent of breast-feeding. For social and political reasons, the famed taxonomist labeled the ...

Men holding high positions within a hierarchical organisation have more offspring than those in other positions within the same organisation. This unexpected result, published this week in Ethology, ...

Glutamate receptors play a central role in the human nervous system. Scientists estimate 90 percent of the human brain's synapses, or connections between neurons, send signals using glutamate. The ...

A new book suggests that within just 20 to 40 years, most human reproduction will take place in the lab, rather than the bedroom. Hank Greely, a Stanford professor who teaches law and genetics, writes ...

Findings from a Yale-affiliated study indicate that the female orgasm evolved from ovulation in mammals and that it plays no functional role in reproduction in humans. Researchers have discovered that ...