A million and one old wives’ tales predict the gender of an unborn child in early pregnancy. For example, according to some, if your bump is high, you are having a girl, but if it is low, a boy is on the way. Similarly, if you crave ice cream every day, you can expect a […]
Senior author Dr. Tony Perry, from the Department of Biology & Biochemistry at Bath, and colleagues publish their findings in the journal Nature Communications. In the traditional sense, fertilization occurs when a sperm meets a female egg. Once this occurs, the egg “reprograms” the sperm, whereby various chromosomal and DNA changes occur that enable the […]