A study has suggested that soda consumption may increase testosterone levels and testicle size in men. The study, conducted by researchers at the Northwest Minzu University in China and published in ...

Testis development is a complex process that starts even before birth. Normally, the developing testes progressively migrate to reach the scrotum during the fetal stage. However, any abnormality in ...

Scientists have developed a model that will enable them to investigate, for the first time, how human testes develop in baby boys while they are in the womb. Until now it has been impossible to study ...

In the first-ever genome-scale analysis of the puberty process in humans, researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) outline distinct and critical changes to ...

The testis is responsible for sperm production and testosterone synthesis. Abnormalities in testis development and function lead to disorders of sex development (DSD) and male infertility. Currently, ...

Learn how small mutations in non-coding DNA can alter sex development in rodents.

Changing just a single base in a specific DNA region of a female mouse embryo led to the development of male reproductive organs. A research team led by Nitzan Gonen at Bar-Ilan University in Israel h ...

In boys with undescended testis, the risk of developing infertility is traditionally predicted based on a decrease in germ cell count observed using testicular biopsy samples. However, the process of ...