Studying Yeast To Better Understand Male Infertility, Institut Albert Bonniot Study

ScienceDaily (Aug. 18, 2010) — Men and yeast have something in common: they use the same molecular process to ensure the integrity of their gene pool during reproduction. This is a recent finding by researchers from CNRS, Inserm and the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. The scientists are studying yeast in order to shed light on the numerous cases of male infertility related to the malfunction of this process during spermatogenesis.