Egg cells are our largest cells. They are so large, in fact, that they should have problems distributing proteins and nutrients within themselves. A new study analyzing this little-understood ...

A woman's egg cells are already formed in her body before she is born. However, with increasing age, DNA damage accumulates ...

It was a finding too striking to be trusted. Elvan Böke, a molecular biologist at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Spain, was studying how immature egg cells in animals, called oocytes, stay ...

The ovary consists of cells other than oocytes, like stromal and thecal cells ... but cautioned against designing medical therapies to delay ovarian aging or improve egg quality based on these results ...

Almost 60% of women with Dysmenorrhea have Endometriosis, an illness that causes severe pain, damages reproductive organs, ...

A Yale-led research team has uncovered how a naturally occurring biological mechanism found in mammals is able to prevent sperm cells from interacting with an egg, preventing fertilization.

Egg-based vaccines have been dominant since the 1940s, though newer technologies and methods are available, including the recombinant flu vaccine Flublok, and the cell-based vaccine Flucelvax.