As reproductive tissues age, DNA repair mechanisms become less efficient, causing genomic damage to accumulate.

Researchers claim to have successfully transformed stem cells into viable mouse oocytes that produced healthy, fertile pups.

Opinion is divided on a new paper showing that adult ovaries do not contain egg-making stem cells, contrary to the findings of two recent studies that themselves appeared to overturn longstanding dogma.

Germline stem cells discovered in human ovaries can be cultured into fresh eggs.

Some of the highlights from this year’s American Society for Cell Biology meeting, held earlier this week