Declining female fertility is a health issue that has received broad global attention. Oocyte quality is the key limiting factor of female fertility, and factors affecting oocyte quality involve the ...

Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply — and can contribute to infertility, pregnancy loss, and ...

A new study cautions high levels of cannabis use could harm chances of falling pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Testing 1,059 samples of follicular fluid from around the developing eggs ...

Extracellular vesicles have been engineered as enhanced drug vehicles, and have emerged as therapeutic agents showing promising results across various pathological conditions. However, they also play ...

How do immature egg cells maintain genetic quality for decades before they mature? Scientists find unusual safeguards in this quiescent cell that may inform research into fertility. Out of all the ...

A new study suggests that human egg cells may be protected against certain age-driven changes seen across the rest of the body. The work, published Aug. 6 in the journal Science Advances, didn't ...

The question most women ask in modern fertility clinics is not whether to freeze eggs, but how many are enough to justify it.

In women, reproductive aging is accompanied by a sharp increase in rates of egg aneuploidy, or an abnormal number of chromosomes in egg cells, also called oocytes. Egg aneuploidy is a leading cause of ...