Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

Women's health researcher Jennifer Garrison on the key role that ovaries appear to play in female health and aging.

Infertility affects 10-15% of reproductive-age couples, with causes ranging from genetic factors to unidentified reasons. Environmental conditions, particularly pollutants, play a significant role in ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Although many people are choosing to have children later in life, biological fertility limitations remain unchanged. Innovations in biotechnology, such as egg quality therapeutics, womb transplants, ...

The Center for American Progress recently hosted a summit with more than 50 advocates from the reproductive and disability rights communities to identify the most pressing policy priorities they face.

A research team at Kyoto University has discovered STAG3-cohesin, a new mitotic cohesin complex that helps establish the unique DNA architecture of spermaotogonial stem cells (SSCs), the stem cells ...

Fluorescence microscopy reveals patterns of nuclear division in a parasitic fly embryo (Ormia ochracea) within this insect's extraordinary 'uterus'. A new study published in the Annals of the ...

Scientists have detected microplastics — the tiny and pervasive fragments now found in our seas, drinking water, food and, increasingly, living tissue — in human semen and follicular fluid, according ...

Hear the phrase “reproductive politics” and sperm likely won’t be the first thing that comes to mind. But in a provocative new collection of essays, Yale sociologist Rene Almeling and a group of ...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is facing backlash after saying that creating life is "the least" of what a woman’s reproductive system does. On the latest episode of the podcast "IMO with Michelle ...