Declining female fertility is a health issue that has received broad global attention. Oocyte quality is the key limiting factor of female fertility, and factors affecting oocyte quality involve the ...

Since the effects of gender-affirming therapy on fertility are unknown, multiple medical societies endorse the preservation of fertility in persons who identify as transgender. 1-3 In transgender male ...

Females are born with a finite number of eggs that are steadily depleted throughout their lifetime. This reserve of eggs is selected from a much larger pool of millions of precursor cells, or oocytes, ...

In a new study published in the journal Nature, researchers in Japan report that activating just eight genes for producing gene-controlling proteins is enough to convert mouse stem cells directly into ...

Of all the available means of fertility preservation, 1 oocyte cryopreservation by means of vitrification (very rapid freezing) provides the highest yield, not only for women with benign diseases or ...

Three years after starting its ambitious program to save the northern white rhino from extinction through advanced assisted reproduction technologies, the BioRescue consortium draws a positive interim ...

Experts underscored that while maternal age remains the most decisive factor, rising cases of early ovarian decline among ...

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center program of cancer and aging. Experience of the 65+ Clinical Geriatric Program in the evaluation of older cancer patients ...

With IVF and egg-freezing techniques, women no longer need to plan their family based on their biological clock. Hence, they get to focus on the other aspects of life, and then embrace motherhood when ...

(a) Fluorescence images showing the chromatin in FGO stained with DAPI. Scale bar, 20 μm. Yellow triangles indicate DAPI-dense heterochromatin foci and the red triangles denote the nucleoli or NLBs.