Changes in EAE-associated gene expression were estimated during the peak of the disease (day 14 after EAE immunization). Because EAE is a T cell-mediated disease, we investigated the changes in IFN-γ, ...

Father's seed The health of a male's seminal fluid can affect his fertility and how fat his adult offspring grows, a new study in mice has found. If the same thing applies in humans, the study could ...

Improved diagnosis and management of one of the most common cancers in men -- prostate cancer -- could result from research that has discovered that seminal fluid contains biomarkers for the disease.

Imagine itching, burning, swelling, or even struggling to breathe just moments after sex. For a small but growing number of women, that’s not an awkward anecdote – it’s a medical condition. It’s ...

For male fruit flies, sperm is not enough in the battle to reproduce – at each mating a cocktail of proteins is transferred to the female, many of which directly influence female behaviours in ways ...

Thick semen is not always a cause for concern, especially if this consistency is infrequent. However, if semen is often very thick, it may signal a problem with the prostate or the seminal vesicles.

THERE’S more to semen than sperm. In many animals, seminal fluid alters both the bodies and sometimes even the behaviour of females. Human semen, too, triggers changes in the uterus, and might have ...

The medicolegal identification of seminal stains in cases of rape is a difficult and frequently unsuccessful process, for it has been customary to base this identification solely on the presence of ...