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Historically, researchers focused on the role of sperm characteristics in fertilization success, but now female factors and cooperative processes are gaining recognition.

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Reproductive Lifespan is Partially Encoded in the Genes

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Mammalian Oocytes Store mRNA in Newly Found Membraneless Structure

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How Immature Egg Cells in Ovaries Resist Aging

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Meet the Algae That Went from Male/Female to Hermaphroditic

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Trees’ Scent Tricks Hornets Into Shuttling Seeds

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Epigenetic Changes to Placenta Correlate with Maternal Depression

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Some Barnacles Can Move Around to Improve Feeding Position

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Infographic: Research Questions to Be Tackled by Uterus Transplants

A New View of My Own Past

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Kirsty Wright is searching for evidence in a missing persons investigation. She is wearing a blue shirt and glasses. Behind her is dense vegetation and police procedural tape.

How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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Maximizing Cancer Research Model Systems

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