What Is the Female Reproductive System? The female reproductive system is designed to carry out several functions. It produces the female egg cells, called the ova or oocytes, which are necessary for ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialize to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and ...

Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton mapped the ...

A new single-cell map reveals how human reproductive organs form and respond to environmental influences A developing human ...

Mapping the human reproductive system offers new clues into conditions affecting reproductive organs and the environmental ...

With the National Institutes of Health's grant, Junhyong Kim (left) and Kathleen O'Neill (right) will create a molecular model of the female reproductive system. Two Penn professors have been awarded ...

Early in fetal development, a mass of cells known as the bipotential gonad has the possibility of giving rise either to ovaries or testes, reproductive organs that contribute to many of the ...

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, to buy a pregnancy test. But it wasn’t for Moffett. Her postdoc, ...