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What Drives Ovarian Aging and Fertility Decline?
6+ hour, 20+ min ago (692+ words) In the ovary,oocytes are dormantin the primordial follicles.Theycan undergo one of the following processes: Schneider's research has shown that Western and high-fat diets do not affect the number of ovarian follicles but instead promote other hallmarks of aging,…...
Gut Microbiome Linked to Ovarian Health and Fertility
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (523+ words) A'new USC study'published in Nature Aging details how fecal transplants from older female mice significantly improve ovarian function and fertility in young mice. The surprising results reveal a direct link between the microbiome (the collection of all bacteria and other…...
mRNA Nanoparticles Offer New Hope for Female Infertility Treatment
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (713+ words) Impaired fertility is the inability to achieve pregnancy after 12 months or more of unprotected, regular intercourse. It impacts more than 1 in 10 women aged 1549 in the United States, and in one-third of infertile couples, the cause is attributed to female factors....
Sperm Swim Faster in the Summer
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (825+ words) Summer may be the best season for sperm. A team from the University of Manchester, Queen's University (Ontario, Canada), and Cryos International (Aarhus, Denmark), analyzed more than 15,000 men in Denmark and Florida and found that sperm motility peaked in summer…...
Fetal Therapy Could Offer a Lifeline for Children With Genetic Disorders
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (897+ words) Genetic disorders with onset before birth are a leading cause of death in infants and children. Thanks to advances in imaging and genetic diagnostic technologies, clinicians can now detect many of these disorders in the womb. This has opened the…...
Vitamin C May Help Protect Fertility From a Harmful Environmental Chemical
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (546+ words) Vitamin C May Help Protect Fertility From a Harmful Environmental Chemical'Technology Networks...
COVID-19 Vaccination Improves Maternal and Newborn Outcomes
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (522+ words) Pregnant people who received a COVID-19 vaccine were far less likely to experience severe illness or deliver their babies prematurely, according to a major new UBC-led study published in'JAMA. Drawing on data from nearly 20,000 pregnancies across Canada, the research found…...
Reintroducing Beneficial Gut Bacteria in Breastfed Infants
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (208+ words) Researchers report that B. infantis supplementation can successfully recolonize the guts of older breastfed infants, challenging the idea that microbiome interventions must occur immediately after birth. "The REMEDI study shows that it's not too late to restore a healthy gut microbiome…...
“There’s No Reason To Accept Menopause”: Dr. Sherman Silber Breaks Fertility Myths
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (942+ words) For more than five decades, Dr.ShermanJ.Silber has been a driving force in reproductive medicine " consistently at the precipice of what many considered possible. From introducing the world's first microsurgical vasectomy reversal in 1975 to pioneering techniques in sperm retrieval,…...