Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) find it harder to get pregnant, have more frequent miscarriages and have a higher ...

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive "atlas" of the cells in the human ovary and mapped the specific pattern of gene activity required for a healthy egg to develop.

Opinion is divided on a new paper showing that adult ovaries do not contain egg-making stem cells, contrary to the findings of two recent studies that themselves appeared to overturn longstanding ...

But Jonathan Tilly of Massachusetts General Hospital and colleagues have now isolated germline stem cells from human ovaries that can differentiate into oocytes. Tilly had previously found ovarian ...

A U.K. surgeon is under investigation after he allegedly removed a woman's ovaries without her consent Maria Pasquini is the staff editor for human interest’s digital vertical at PEOPLE.

The female gamete is called an ovum or egg. The plural is ova. Ova are produced from germline cells in the ovaries. Ovaries contain immature ova at various stages of development. Each ova is ...

Toshiaki Araki, 68, the seventh-generation president of Arayo&Co. that was founded in 1830 and is one of the five corporate producers, explained how to treat fugu ovaries for human consumption.