Failure to ovulate and release mature oocytes is one of the most common female infertility problems. With increasing age or conditions like obesity, no oocytes are released even on ovulation induction ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with poor vs. normal response to ovarian stimulation were more likely to use their frozen eggs. Having ...

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 ...

The ovaries are critical for maintaining female reproductive and endocrine function. They are known to age faster than other organs, and few effective methods exist to slow this aging. Ovarian aging ...

Melina Schuh has been fascinated with ovarian germ cells, or oocytes, since she began her graduate studies in 2004. “[I] realized that only little was known about these important cells that are ...

Primordial germ cells, which emerge around day 16 in early human embryos, develop to form oogonia so that eventually, the number of oocytes that are present in an adult female is fixed at birth. After ...

Female mammals have a limited number of follicles that came form eggs, called the ovarian reserve. New work at UC Davis shows that the PRC1 gene complex is responsible for establishing the ovarian ...

Researchers have succeeded in reconstructing the ovarian environment using mouse stem cells. While growing immature egg cells -- known as oocytes -- from stem cells has been possible, the process ...