THC in marijuana may help eggs become ready for fertilization. But this may come at the cost of more eggs with wrong numbers of chromosomes.

Women’s brains are just as complex as men’s, yet for years, science largely ignored them. For decades, scientific and... The post Her brain, her research: understanding gender in neuroscience appeared ...

Sharks, skates and rays adapt their growth and reproduction to changing food availability, a new study reveals.

The condition, known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, is a rare congenital disorder that affects about one in every 4,500 to 5,000 female births. Patients develop breasts and pubic ...

Women's fertility is influenced not only by the quality of their eggs but also by the interactions between somatic cells in ...

A protein known as MPS1 helps to ensure that a key process during cell division of oocytes—unfertilized egg cells—occurs in a ...