Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This microscope image provided by Osaka University and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in October 2024, shows the ...

What fertilization actually looks like under a microscope.

THE use of the phase-contrast microscope for the study of certain stages in the fertilization of rat eggs has been described 1. It was pointed out that pressing the eggs beneath a coverslip greatly ...

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 ...