Reproductive aging in both males and females is characterized by a decline in reproductive capacity due to numerous ...

Egg freezing, or oocyte cryopreservation, allows women to preserve fertility by extracting and freezing unfertilized eggs.

Polyphosphate (polyP) exists in all life forms; however, its biological functions in metazoans are understudied. Here, we explored Drosophila as the first genetic model to explore polyP biology in ...

When I reflect on what I am loving most about my senior year at Georgetown University, my answer is clear: school restrooms ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan has now been studying flies in his "fly laboratory" at Columbia University for two years. Day after day, the trained geneticist feeds thousands of these insects, a mere three ...

Know all about this phase of your menstrual cycle. Image courtesy: Adobe Stock “During the follicular phase, the follicles in the ovaries grow and mature under the influence of follicle-stimulating ...

Other symptoms that can indicate someone has scalp folliculitis include: Scalp folliculitis is caused by inflammation within the hair follicle. What causes the inflammation is not always known, but ...

2011; Batista et al., 2014). As mentioned before, it may be suggested that a lower atresia rate may lead to a greater number of viable oocytes. Antral follicle count is related to various fertility ...

When more than three follicles reached a diameter larger than 18 mm, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) was administered intramuscularly. Oocyte retrieval was conducted 36 hours after hCG injection ...

Infertility in women can be caused by many factors, such as defects in the ovaries. An important part of the ovaries for fertility are internal structures called follicles, which house early forms of ...