A new study from UC Davis shows that the pesticide atrazine in drinking water accelerates aging in mouse egg cells and chromosomes. (Getty Images) Female infants are born with several million immature ...

Communication between oocytes and granulosa cells is essential for oocyte formation, dormancy, reawakening, and maturation. Researchers have demonstrated that a protein complex called the exocyst ...

Ultrasuperovulation is an advanced technique that significantly increases the number of oocytes, produced by female mice. However, existing ultrasuperovulation techniques have a low fertilization rate ...

Recently, the research team led by Wei Li and Chao Liu from Guangzhou Medical University Affiliated Women and Children's Medical Center, in collaboration with Fei Gao’s team from the Institute of ...

Oocytes are immature egg cells that develop in almost all female mammals before birth. The propagation of future generations depends on this finite reserve of cells surviving for many years without ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Are female mammals born with all the eggs they'll ever have, or can they produce new eggs into adulthood? The question has been vociferously debated, but now, a study published online in Nature Cell ...