Hattie Chung, PhD, began her journey to becoming a scientist at the age of eight when she moved from Seoul, South Korea, to ...

Among all the organs in the human body, the ovaries are the earliest to show signs of decline, closing up shop around the age ...

A scientific illustration of a human ovary and fallopian tube. (Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) From day one ...

Fertility declines as women get older for many reasons, such as a drop in egg quality, decreased follicle numbers and ...

As central female reproductive organs, the ovaries produce fertilizable eggs and generate the sex hormones estrogen and ...

Postmenopausal ovaries may remain active by interacting with immune cells. The findings of a new study could widen ...

Aging affects every organ in the body, yet we still know little about how the ovary changes over time. In a new study published in Nature Aging, Yale researchers created one of the most detailed maps ...

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 longer ...

Female fertility depends on the successful growth and maturation of eggs (oocytes) within ovarian follicles. Within these ...

Ovarian cancer has long proved difficult to treat. Could the answer lie within the disease itself? Discover how synthetic ...