Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses reproduction, University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have established that humans make it too, opening the ...

Stress is known to decrease fertility and sexual behavior, but researchers thought this was because stress hormones lower levels of a brain hormone called gonadotropin releasing hormone, or GnRH.

Cognitive decline not only affects a woman’s quality of life but also her ability to lead an independent lifestyle later in life. A new large-scale study suggests that a longer reproductive lifespan, ...

Growing tissue from cells in a petri dish is hard enough, but growing multiple types of tissue, connecting them, and keeping them alive for weeks is even more daunting. A team led by Teresa K.

BOSTON — So-called “organs on a chip” — small blobs of tissue growing in lab dishes that mimic the function of their human counterparts — have promise for basic science and drug development. And those ...

In today's world screens are everywhere. We use them for work, for emails, for media and for entertainment. Many people spend ...

Interactions between the innate and adaptive immune systems and the endocrine system in the female reproductive tract (FRT) are essential for successful reproduction and for maintaining immune ...

One of the most challenging areas of health care is the endocrine system. This vastly complex system is what regulates the hormones in your body. Often hormones are seen as triggers for very specific ...