BOSTON - A pair of achievements in the laboratory offer new tools for better understanding how gametes (reproductive cells) form, and may offer insights to help scientists "reprogram" adult cells to ...

Scientists from Nagoya University, Yokohama City University and Chubu University have developed a system which enables the live imaging of the formation of the female gamete in plants. In flowering ...

During receptor-mediated ciliary binding between the highly motile plus and minus gametes, the apical ends of the cells are forced against each other by the continued motility of their now tethered ...