Researchers report that both maternal and paternal exposures to outdoor air pollution can negatively affect human embryo development in in vitro ... s ovaries are producing eggs (also known as oocytes ...

They are formed in a woman's body before birth and have to be on standby for decades to possibly be fertilized one day. But ...

A new bill has been introduced in the Alabama Legislature that would classify human cloning as a felony. HB380, introduced by ...

A study originally focusing on cancer has shown that amyloids — proteins typically linked to neurodegenerative diseases like ...

This week the EPA announced the rollback of a wide swath of regulations, many of which could worsen air quality. Experts say ...

Resveratrol, a natural compound in the skin of grapes, blueberries, and raspberries, may improve fertility by improving egg cells.

Cells in the human body have very different life spans ... “We found that DNA repair slows down in aged oocytes,” says Schuh. “As a result, DNA damage accumulates in the cell.” To better understand ...

When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its mission was to protect the environment and human health ... showed negative impacts with oocyte survival, fertilization and ...

This is the largest genome-wide association study meta-analysis of its kind, analysing  data on 42 female reproductive health ...