Known as "the silent killer" due to its lack of symptoms and reliable screening tests, ovarian cancer remains one of the ...

Recent research highlights that for fertility and aging, the egg may be the leading lady, but she needs her supporting cast.

Ovaries are only about the size of large grapes, but they’re one of the most important organs in the female body. Their primary responsibilities include producing eggs and secreting sex hormones that ...

The SEED-AD Research Program in the Women's Health Research Center at Mayo Clinic studies how removal of the ovaries affects ...

Many women choose to have their ovaries removed during a hysterectomy. Though removing the ovaries adds little to overall risk of the surgery, it could contribute to colon cancer or other potential ...

The ovary is a time machine. It travels to the future, reaching old age ahead of the rest of the body. At birth, each ovary contains around a million follicles—tiny, fluid-filled sacs that hold ...

Human body is something that never fails to surprise us and is one of the most complex mechanisms. With that being said, one must know about the important functions that ovaries have to play in a ...

A U.K. surgeon is under investigation after he allegedly removed a woman's ovaries without her consent Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the human interest vertical at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Figure 2: Isolation of OSCs from adult mouse and human ovaries. We next engineered FACS-purified mouse OSCs to express GFP using retroviral transduction after we established the cells as actively ...

A Chinese man who sought treatment for a recurring urinary problem was shocked to find out that he had ovaries and had been menstruating for 20 years. The 33-year-old man, identified only by his ...