Research published in Human Reproduction**,Europe's leading journal of reproductive medicine, has shown that, in mice, stimulating the ovaries by hormone drugs to produce more eggs appears to impair ...

Age related decline in female fertility remains one of the most urgent challenges facing reproductive medicine today. The decline affects both the number and the quality of oocytes, which reduces chan ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Some experts advocate the use of ovulation-inducing agents to collect multiple eggs from the ovaries in one go. However, there is an ongoing debate on whether this approach can produce high-quality ...

For over a century, the ‘sterile womb’ dogma considered the upper female reproductive tract (FRT), which comprises the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries, a sterile environment. Modern ...

Mouse study shows maternal sleep deprivation triggers ferroptosis-mediated germ cell loss in female offspring, reducing ...

Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic ...

Some newly reported clumps of cells growing in lab dishes have been hailed as the closest things to human embryos that scientists have ever made in the lab. These entities are human embryo models — ...

Researchers have used naïve pluripotent stem cells to create an embryo model that looks and acts like a natural human embryo. They say it’s an ethical way of gaining a better understanding of ...