Male hormone levels maintain day-to-day stability while female hormones experience continuous changes throughout both the menstrual cycle and various life stages.

Women spend 9 years of their lives in poor health, which is 25% more than men.1 For women, these years are not confined to the end of life, but centred earlier in life from menarche up to menopause.1 ...

In “Reproductive Wrongs,” the classicist Sarah Ruden traces efforts to exert political control over family planning back 2,000 years.

A new study details how fecal transplants from older female mice significantly improve ovarian function and fertility in young mice. The surprising results reveal a direct link between the microbiome ...

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

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 ...

During mammalian reproduction, millions of sperm undertake a journey that only one will finish. This journey to fertilization has been commonly viewed as a race: a sea of sperm competing to get to the ...

Scientists are making inroads in understanding one of the central mysteries of human reproduction: Why do women’s eggs deteriorate as they age? The broad strokes have been well-known — the ticking of ...

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 ...

Japanese researchers writing in the International Journal of Urology have made strides in helping settle a long-standing sexological debate: The clear fluid that some people with vaginas have been ...

Owing to its remarkable ability to influence the host’s physiology, the gut microbiome has been termed a “forgotten organ” (Cai et al., 2023). The gut microbiota in animals plays a critical role in ...