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A long-term study finds that moon cycles and menstrual cycles align at certain times of women’s lives, shedding new light on the full moon and menstrual cycle relationship.

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Science Snapshot: Go Forth and Multiply

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Secret to Reproductive Ants’ Longevity Revealed

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How Immature Egg Cells in Ovaries Resist Aging

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Trees’ Scent Tricks Hornets Into Shuttling Seeds

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Opinion: The Reproductive Technology Advances No One Asked For

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Steroids May Explain Octopuses’ Self-Starvation

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The Mystery of the Mouse Sperm Hook

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Spiders Catapult Themselves to Avoid Becoming Their Mate’s Meal

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Rat Sperm Generated from Stem Cells

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The Scientist Speaks - DIY Cells: Understanding Life with a Synthetic Minimal Cell

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Could Dad’s Mitochondrial DNA Benefit Hybrids?

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The Scientist Editors’ Favorite Stories of 2021

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“Xenobot” Living Robots Can Reproduce

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Infographic: Research Questions to Be Tackled by Uterus Transplants

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Uterus Transplants Hit the Clinic

Opinion: How Biomedicine Could Transform Human Reproduction

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Study that Impregnated Male Rats Stirs Controversy

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Rotifers Bounce Back After Being Frozen for 24,000 Years

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A Multipurpose Gene Facilitates the Evolution of an Animal Weapon

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No Proof COVID-19 Vaccine Affects Menstruation or Fertility

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The Advent of Automated and AI-Driven Benchwork

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Olink® Reveal: Accessible NGS-based proteomics for every lab

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How Do Embryos Know How Fast to Develop

In mammals, intracellular clocks begin to tick within days of fertilization.

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Genetic Insights Break Infectious Pathogen Barriers

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