Evidence links the gut microbiota and fertility to women’s reproductive health, influencing hormone metabolism, and ...

BOSTON — So-called “organs on a chip” — small blobs of tissue growing in lab dishes that mimic the function of their human counterparts — have promise for basic science and drug development. And those ...

Despite the fact that we all start out as an egg cell in one of our mother's ovaries, these human reproductive organs are surprisingly under-studied. Scientists have been working on creating in vitro ...

Microplastics are everywhere - in the air you breathe, the water you drink, food you eat. It has even entered the living tissue. Scientists have discovered microplastics in human reproductive fluids.

All vertebrate and invertebrate animals have an innate immune system, but adaptive immunity is thought to be a uniquely vertebrate feature 3. Underlying adaptive immunity are variable, clonally ...

Research shows that bacteria can be beneficial to body processes such as digestion; however, some bacteria housed in the human body may cause disease. These specialized communities of bacteria in the ...

When a woman dies in childbirth, amid the shock is the haunting question of why? What went wrong? Sadly, in countries with the highest burden of maternal mortality and poor records on reproductive ...

The discovery raises significant concerns for human reproductive health. Researchers issue warning about overlooked threat to ...

Scientists have detected potentially toxic microplastic particles in human semen and female reproductive fluids for the first time, raising concerns about potential risks to health and fertility. A ...