For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

Evidence links the gut microbiota and fertility to women’s reproductive health, influencing hormone metabolism, and ...

Low levels can result in weight gain, lethargy, and mental fogginess, while high levels produce restlessness, irritability, ...

Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By the time he moved across the country to do a PhD in George Church’s lab at Harvard, ...

New research challenges the 'bigger is better' mentality, revealing that increased male body size and fat mass are linked to ...

You probably know estrogen by its traditional sex-ed definition: A female reproductive hormone. But, like women themselves, estrogen is so much more. In fact, some experts tout estrogen as the most ...

Scientists have detected microplastics — the tiny and pervasive fragments now found in our seas, drinking water, food and, increasingly, living tissue — in human semen and follicular fluid, according ...

University of Michigan provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. For up to 10% of women, however, hormone contraceptives can increase their risk of depression. Hormones, including ...