The rete ovarii, a poorly understood structure connected to the ovaries, may be much more essential to ovarian function than ...

For biologists, seeing is believing. But sometimes biologists have a hard time seeing. One particularly vexing challenge is ...

The ovary consists of cells other than oocytes ... they tested whether aged oocytes contained aggregates of misfolded proteins. Microscopy revealed no such aggregates in aged oocytes. The researchers ...

Every month, wounds open in women of child-bearing age. To release an egg during ovulation, the ovary ruptures, bursting a single layer of cells known as the ovarian surface epithelium (OSE). The body ...

Then, in the 1950s, electron microscopy provided scientists with ... stop dividing and enter meiosis within the fetal ovary. Those germ cells that enter meiosis become oocytes, the source of ...