Hunting pressure drives female turkeys to produce more daughters, study suggests

Female turkeys could be running the roost for years to come. New research from the University of Georgia published in the ...
The Minnesota DailyOpinion

Opinion: Expecting mothers should not have to fear the unexpected

Our cultural discomfort with reproductive health and the female sex is harming and misinforming us. Our unbalanced and ...
Road & Track

Feds Reveal Long-Overdue New Design for Female Crash Test Dummy

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced its offical endorsement of a highly sophisticated new model of female crash test dummy. The model, known as THOR-05F, has three times as ...
Jezebel

RFK Jr. Confirms He Knows Nothing About Female Anatomy in Embarrassing Rant

It’s no secret that RFK Jr. loves to not know things, but his latest seemingly accidental admission reveals that not only does he not know anything about science, medicine, statistics, research, or ...
Scientific American

Lab-Made Mini Organs Could Transform Female Reproductive Medicine

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, ...
SciELO

Anatomy of male and female reproductive organs of stink bugs pests (Pentatomidae: Heteroptera) from soybean and rice crops

Insects were cryoanesthetized at -5 ºC for 10 min and their reproductive tracts were dissected in 0.1 M sodium chloride. For anatomical analysis, the reproductive tracts, freshly fixed in 2.5% ...
New Scientist

Letter: Two views on the naming of female body parts (1)

I agree with Adam Taor that some of the terminology used for female anatomy, especially reproductive parts, is extremely paternalistic, if not outright misogynistic, and could do with revision(14 June ...
ZME Science

Scientists Rediscover a Lost Piece of Female Anatomy That May Play a Crucial Role in Fertility

For years, a mysterious tangle of tissue lurking beneath the ovary has been dismissed, absent from anatomy charts and medical textbooks. But a new study suggests that this tissue, long thought to be a ...
Greek Reporter

Female Organ Deemed ‘Useless’ for Over 100 Years Found Vital to Fertility

A small organ in the female body is now linked to fertility. Credit: Sara Neff / CC BY 2.0 A once-ignored organ of the female reproductive system may play a far greater role in fertility than ...
RealClearScience

'Useless' Female Organ Might Not Be Useless

An unsung appendage in the female body, which has long been considered useless, may actually be essential for ovary development and fertility, a new mouse study finds. This structure, called the rete ...
Live Science

'Useless' female organ discovered over a century ago may actually support ovaries, study finds

The rete ovarii, a poorly understood structure connected to the ovaries, may be much more essential to ovarian function than scientists initially thought. When you purchase through links on our site, ...
unh.edu

Of Mice and Women: How a Genomic Experiment Unveiled Surprising Gaps in Our Understanding of the Female Reproductive System

In summer 2024, I received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from the Hamel Undergraduate Research Center to pursue a project in Dr. MacManes’s genomics and physiology lab, which ...