BOSTON -- For the first time, researchers have shown how Mullerian inhibiting substance (MIS), also known as anti-Mullerian hormone, a key reproductive hormone, suppresses follicle development and ...

Fertility is finite for mammalian females. From birth, females possess a limited number of primordial follicles, collectively called the ovarian reserve. Within each follicle is an oocyte that ...

A new study suggests high levels of the hormone ghrelin, which stimulates appetite and is also released during stress, could be harmful to some aspects of reproductive function. Researchers have ...

Hair loss can be distressing, even devastating, but it isn’t considered a serious health problem. Consequently, hair loss has been addressed by relatively few biotech companies. One of those companies ...

Female mammals have a limited number of follicles that came form eggs, called the ovarian reserve. New work at UC Davis shows that the PRC1 gene complex is responsible for establishing the ovarian ...