Sunlight activates hormones essential for mood, sleep and reproductive health — that’s why it’s important to go outside when ...

Male hormone levels maintain day-to-day stability while female hormones experience continuous changes throughout both the menstrual cycle and various life stages.

In today’s fast-paced world, nutrition often takes a backseat to convenience. However, when it comes to fertility and ...

Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses reproduction, University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have established that humans make it too, opening the ...

The following outlines aspects of the female reproductive system, including the internal and external organs, the menstrual cycle, the egg, and reproductive hormones. The menstrual cycle is a monthly ...

Microglia (immune cells) and the RANK protein are essential for triggering puberty and maintaining fertility in the brain.

Specifically, Albanese and her team found that among the 373 women reporting OCD symptom onset, 5% noticed their OCD symptoms began at the onset of menopause. Of the 265 women reporting symptom change ...

Christian Kramme grew up in a big family, the youngest of seven kids raised in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. By the time he moved across the country to do a PhD in George Church’s lab at Harvard, ...

Researchers found a rare, strictly binary brain feature in mice that is permanently active in females but completely dormant ...

Men have nipples, mammary glands and the hormones required, but the ability for male lactation rarely turns on. Here’s why evolution mostly suppresses it.

Every day, we are exposed to a wide range of chemicals that can mimic hormones in our bodies. These chemicals, often found in plasticisers, pesticides and industrial waste products, are a growing ...