by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international team of researchers has identified multiple X chromosomes that likely contribute to infertility in men. In their paper published in The American Journal of Human Genetics, the researchers describe how they conducted genetic sequencing on genes from male patients suffering from infertility and compared them...
by Ranjith Ramasamy, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Contrary to myths circulating on social media, COVID-19 vaccines do not cause erectile dysfunction and male infertility. What is true: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, poses a risk for both disorders. Until now, little research has been done on how the virus or vaccines affect the male...
ESTONIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL IMAGE: THE PREVALENCE OF THE Y-CHROMOSOMAL HAPLOGROUP R1A1-M458 CARRYING A FIXED R2/R3 INVERSION. (A) GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF HAPLOGROUP R1A1-M458 AND ITS SUB-LINEAGES IN EUROPE. PIE CHARTS INDICATE POPULATIONS, WITH THE BLACK SECTOR SHOWING THE PROPORTION OF R1a1-M458 ACCORDING TO UNDERHILL et al., 2015. CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF TARTU The findings published in eLife show that...
By Michael Irving, October 22, 2020 A potential new treatment for male infertility has been demonstrated in tests on mice. Male infertility is a serious issue, often caused by low sperm counts. Now, researchers at Seoul National University have developed a way to deliver nanoparticles loaded with certain proteins directly into the testes. In tests in mice,...
Hope has emerged for infertile men as scientists at Newcastle University have understood the importance of a gene in regulating the production of fully-functioning sperm. For the first time, experts have identified the role of gene, RBMXL2, which is very similar to a possible infertility gene found on the Y chromosome found only in men....
