A recent study published in Nature Communications by researchers at Karolinska Institutet offers new insights into the development of ovarian follicles, which are vital for female fertility as they ...

BOSTON -- For the first time, researchers have shown how Mullerian inhibiting substance (MIS), also known as anti-Mullerian hormone, a key reproductive hormone, suppresses follicle development and ...

Ovaries are fig-shaped glands that lie on either side of the uterus and are crucial to a woman’s reproductive system—and have other important roles in the body as well. Here’s everything a woman needs ...

Scientists are learning that ovaries aren't just important for making babies—they also keep the heart, brain, and bones healthy. A mouse ovary treated with a high dose of anti-Mullerian hormone ...

Chemotherapy often causes infertility in young women because the drugs are designed to damage all rapidly growing cells, including those in ovarian follicles. Scientists have good evidence that chemo ...

Trying to conceive is not always, ahem, a straight shot. A diagnosis like polycystic ovary syndrome can throw even more ...

For some of the hundreds of thousands of women who are diagnosed with cancer each year, chemotherapy may be a particularly bitter pill to swallow: the same treatments that could save their lives might ...

During the early phase of oogenesis the total population of gametes in the ovary is produced by intense mitosis and thereafter no further additions take place. The commencement of meiosis is initiated ...

A new era of regenerative medicine could be on the horizon. A 3-D printed ovary allowed an infertile mouse to naturally mate and go on to give birth to two pups of their own, according to new research ...