Human oocytes can last for up to 50 years—and a newly discovered metabolic pathway is key to this longevity. By Lauren J. Young Published Jul 22, 2022 2:45 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Spanish researchers have identified different types of plastics in seminal plasma and ovarian follicular fluid ...

Novel research presented today at the 41st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE ...

Reliable assessments of oocyte developmental potential are lacking, making it difficult to select the best quality embryos for transfer after in vitrofertilization. Here, the authors show that a ...

Dec. 10, 2020 — More than 7% of human oocytes contain at least one exchangeless chromosome pair, demonstrating a remarkably high level of meiotic recombination failure, finds a new study.

Exactly how oocytes accomplish this has been something of a mystery to cellular biologists. Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Spain may have solved that mystery.

Rare stem cell population could enable new approaches to fertility treatment. Scientists have isolated and purified rare, human germline stem cells that can be propagated over long periods of time ...

Based in Japan, biotech startup Dioseve’s ambitious goal is to grow human oocytes, or eggs, from other tissue. Its aim is to help people struggling with infertility, and it recently raised $3 ...

Fewer in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intrauterine insemination (IUI) cycles were reported in Europe in 20202, but clinical ...

Human eggs often contain the wrong number of chromosomes, leading to miscarriages and infertility. A research team led by Melina Schuh at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences ...