Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...

For most women, the body begins to change dramatically in their 40s or 50s. This transition, known as menopause, is defined ...

Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus ...

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...

IVI RMA Global, the world's leading fertility care organization, and  Conceivable Life Sciences today announced a strategic partnership to transform the future of reproductive medicine. IVI RMA will ...

University of Arizona Health Sciences — which has housed the colleges of medicine in Tucson and Phoenix, and the colleges of nursing, pharmacy and public health — is being dismantled, and its various ...

While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...

Living systems rely on molecules fitting together precisely. A key concept is chirality – many biological building blocks come in mirror-image forms, like left and right hands. Life on Earth mostly ...

We've all heard of menopause: a supposedly terminal moment for the female reproductive system, in which the ovaries stop ...

Why do so many men only think about fertility when there is a problem? Perhaps the answer lies in our societal scripts.

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...