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An epigenetic factor that is essential for producing mature egg cells in mice has been identified by RIKEN researchers for ...

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Almost 50% of women in midlife surveyed in a Monash University-led study had poor sexual well-being, including a doubling of ...

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You may have heard that vaping is the "safer" choice than smoking. But what if the very thing designed to protect your health ...

It seems contradictory: the pills you're taking for headaches might actually be perpetuating them. Medication-overuse ...

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Researchers in Shanghai have reported in a study, recently published in Science Advances, that they've successfully decoded ...

Menopause can bring a wave of physical and emotional changes—and for people with cancer, those changes can start earlier or ...

Now, a growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of biologically male or ...