Recent research highlights that for fertility and aging, the egg may be the leading lady, but she needs her supporting cast. By Kristen V. Brown The egg has become a dominant source of anxiety for ...

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 ...

For years, scientists have sought to create a human artificial ovary, restoring fertility in patients without other options. The first cellular map of a human ovary, recently developed at the ...

With the aim of restoring female hormone cycles for pediatric cancer survivors, a team of University of Michigan researchers ...

Women who have had one ovary surgically removed (unilateral oophorectomy) are less likely to become pregnant after in vitro fertilisation and give birth to fewer babies than women with both ovaries.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. A reader has the gobsmacking story: My story isn’t one of my pain being ...