With a new imaging technique, UC San Francisco scientists discover an ecosystem that determines how eggs mature and ovaries ...

Fibroblasts and endothelial cells, both key to structure and blood flow, changed most with age. In older samples, these cells ...

A recent study shows evidence of what scientists have feared for a long time: the effects of microplastics on human fertility. For the first time, scientists have discovered microplastics in the ...

A woman's fertility declines with age, which is often attributed to a fall in egg number and quality, but the environment of ...

* Microplastics were detected in 78% of follicular fluid samples from IVF patients * Average concentration was 2191 particles/mL, with particles small enough to //penetrate cells * Linked to oxidative ...

A long-held belief about women and fertility is that each woman has a set amount of eggs in her lifetime and that when those eggs are depleted at menopause, so are her chances at having a biological ...