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

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

* 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 ...

The ticking of the biological clock is especially loud in the ovaries—the organs that store and release a woman's eggs. From age 25 to 40, a woman's chance of conceiving each month decreases ...