The ovaries play a significant role in a female’s overall reproductive health, which can affect susceptibility to age-related ...

A breathtaking new clip shows a pulsing egg cell exploding out of its follicle - a sac in the ovaries that houses immature ... ovulation in mouse follicles in real-time. The team used follicles ...

A mouse ovary treated with a high dose of anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH)—a hormone naturally produced by follicles in the ovary ... (Frozen shoulder is a real condition—and it mostly affects ...

This series was created for Google, the Buck Institute, Optispan and Phenome Health by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Women live far ...

They showed that ovulation occurs in three distinct phases. First, the largest and most mature follicle in the ovary expands in size — growing about 1.5-fold — over the course of eight hours.

The pituitary gonadotropins luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone ... Yeh J, Adashi EY. The ovarian life cycle. In: Yen SSC, Jaffe RB, Barbieri RL, eds. Reproductive endocrinology ...

During the menstrual cycle, an egg grows in a follicle sac ... risk of an infection and can be life threatening if left untreated. If you have recurring ovarian cysts, a doctor can prescribe ...

Ovarian cysts are ... cyst at some point in their life," Taylor said. "Having had one sees you more likely to have another." Functional cysts can form from either follicles or the corpus luteum.

A single chemical is key to controlling when hair follicle cells divide ... biologist and study co-author Qixuan Wang. "In real life, our new research gets us closer to understanding stem cell ...