Menopause, driven by ovarian aging and the depletion of ovarian reserves, marks the end of a woman's fertility, and while many aspects of these processes are well understood, the overall dynamics ...

In a study published in a 2024 issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, researchers predicted that for most women under 40, ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation would ...

“Although the biology of extremely long-lived proteins in aging has been known for a while, this is the first paper to carefully characterize the nature and identity of those proteins in the ovary,” ...

Reproductive aging is occurring in females in the prime of their life. The ovary is the female gonad, which houses egg cells. Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have, and each egg is ...

Ovarian torsion occurs when an ovary twists around the ligaments that hold it in place. This twisting can cut off blood flow to the ovary and fallopian tube, leading to symptoms such as nausea ...

Understanding the process of extracellular matrix proteolysis was one of our early goals, and we found that ovarian cancer cells produce potent matrix-degrading proteases. 2 Our studies on aging and ...

Preliminary studies in mice show that rapamycin can decrease ovarian aging by 20%. The team of researchers is currently investigating whether these benefits translate to women. “As promising as ...