Biologists have long wondered why caribou are the only deer in the world in which females—like males—have antlers. A study of ...

Is your weight stopping you from getting pregnant An expert explains how being underweight or overweight impacts hormones and ...

Learn about Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, its risks, symptoms, and prevention for better reproductive health in women.

This is exactly how a woman's uterus can 'taste' funky sperm, with experts providing an explanation as to the science behind the phenomenon. In the study titled 'Bitter Taste Receptors in the ...

The female reproductive system is made up of the parts that are inside and outside the body that help a female make a baby. Both the female and male reproductive system are needed for this. The female ...

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 ...

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, to buy a pregnancy test. But it wasn’t for Moffett. Her postdoc, ...

Background: Dietary inflammation and oxidative stress have been linked to reproductive health, and weight gain has also been found to play an important role in female reproductive function ...

Why do cats generally live longer than dogs? New research suggests that longer lifespans of mammals like cats could be linked to their bigger brains and more complex immune systems. Why do cats ...

In summer 2024, I received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from the Hamel Undergraduate Research Center to pursue a project in Dr. MacManes’s genomics and physiology lab, which ...

The endometrium is the layer of tissue lining the inside of the uterus – the reproductive organ in the pelvis where a baby develops. "The endometrium is a crucial part of the female reproductive ...