A Vermont elementary school says it will no longer use the words “male” or “female” when teaching fifth-grade students about puberty and human reproductive systems. Families of students at Founders ...

H. macrantha flowers have both male and female reproductive organs. To avoid mating with themselves, individual flowers go through a male phase and then a female phase. They rely on hummingbirds to ...

The following outlines aspects of the female reproductive system, including the internal and external organs, the menstrual cycle, the egg, and reproductive hormones. The menstrual cycle is a monthly ...

Inflammation is a key modulator of physiologic processes and plays a pivotal role in responses to injury and infection and can be acute or chronic, local and/or systemic, and beneficial or detrimental ...

Could gum disease affect fertility? A new study suggests oral inflammation may impair reproductive health. Infertility is a very common problem affecting up to one in five couples – 186 million ...

In a scientific breakthrough that could redefine reproductive health research, Harvard University scientists have created the world’s first menstruating mice. The study, titled “Induction of ...

The concept of reproductive health emerged in the 1990s. After the 1994 Cairo Conference, the Chinese government started to use “reproductive health” and “reproductive rights”. In 2020, the US CDC ...

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, to buy a pregnancy test. But it wasn’t for Moffett. Her postdoc, ...

Unlike their relatives, individuals of the poison frog Allobates femoralis are not poisonous but are captivating due to their different behavioral profiles: They successfully reproduce with different ...