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 ...

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive "atlas" of the cells in the human ovary and mapped the specific pattern of gene activity required for a healthy egg to develop. The ...

Scientists have created an "atlas" of ovarian aging. The atlas suggests ovaries are an untapped, rapid way to study human longevity treatments. One researcher is testing antiaging drugs on ovaries, ...

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 female fetus has approximately 6 million to 7 million oocytes — immature eggs — at 4 months old, but the number drops dramatically, to about 1 million to 2 million, by birth and continues to fall ...