Moore, a biomedical engineer at the University of Maryland in College Park, lives with noncancerous tumors in the uterus called uterine fibroids. “That’s what drew me in to wanting to understand these ...

A new study has shown the ovary’s tissues and cells play a bigger role than previously thought in how fertility wanes.

The institute has built more than 20 types of organs-on-chips, or miniature models of human organs lined with living cells, ...

The science pros at The King of Random expose the shocking truth about your uvula. Brewers fan loses job and is banned from ...

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilize it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This ...

Researchers have succeeded in making human skin cells behave like egg cells, though the resulting fertilized embryos run them ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

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

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...

Turning from mock biography to ancient myth, the story follows a giant princess who saves a village through laughter, before ...

If you ovulate later than expected, you may wonder how it affects your chances of conceiving. This article examines late ...