Attempts to obtain eggs and offspring using oocytes in ovary have been made for keeping desirable traits in livestock, preserving human fertility, etc. Ovarian transplantation, one of those methods, ...

Researchers have documented that corals can pass mutations acquired during their lifetimes to their offspring, providing increased genetic diversity for potential evolutionary adaptation. In a ...

Bisphenol A (BPA) is an anthropogenic chemical used as a raw material for plastics such as polycarbonate and epoxy resins, and for the inner coating of canned foods. BPA has been detected in human ...

Paternal nutritional status prior to conception is increasingly recognised as a determinant of offspring health through epigenetic mechanisms. Dietary macronutrient composition, energy intake and ...

A team of researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health has found infections in pregnant mice promoted tissue-specific immunity and also inflammation in their offspring. In their paper ...

In a discovery that challenges over a century of evolutionary conventional wisdom, corals have been shown to pass somatic mutations—changes to the DNA sequence that occur in non-reproductive cells—to ...