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The female reproductive system includes the ovaries, uterus, vagina, and vulva. Learn more about female reproductive organ anatomy.
Female anatomy is complex. Explore the insights of internal and external body parts in a female body that enable menstruation, reproduction and sex.
Medically reviewed by Andrea L. Braden, MD The female reproductive system is the internal and external organs involved in fertility, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth in people assigned female at ...
There are huge gaps in what we know about sperm, from how they navigate to why sperm counts are tumbling. The BBC unravels ...
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Do sperm really race to the egg?
It's commonly thought that sperm "race" to the egg, with the winner fertilizing it. But is this really the case?
Explore the female anatomy, its unique female structures and their reproductive significance.
These structures carry fertilized eggs from your ovaries to the uterus, where the baby develops. The tubes can get damaged when scars form after pelvic infections, endometriosis, and pelvic surgery.
In the study, they found that by boosting or stimulating the process of autophagy in female eggs, they were able to improve egg quality by reducing DNA damage and the likelihood of abnormal ...
After the egg has been fertilized by a sperm, the surrounding egg coat tightens, mechanically preventing the entry of additional sperm and the ensuing death of the embryo, a new study finds. The ...
In New Jersey, it’s illegal to keep female blue crabs that have visible egg sacs attached. All female crabs with eggs or spawn attached must be released, according to the New Jersey Department ...
“Male” and “female” should be swapped with “sperm-producing” and “egg-producing” in science, according to the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Language Project.