The discovery of a gut-to-brain regulation pathway in flies calls for additional consideration on how certain medications, especially GLP-1 agonists, can be used to treat obesity and diabetes in ...

Have you ever blamed your energy levels, weight, or mood on your hormones without knowing what that truly meant? Several people do so at some point. Particularly when things don’t make sense and there ...

Brain organoids have come a long way. These mini-brains, at most the size of a pea, are made from stem cells or reprogrammed skin cells and churned inside a bioreactor full of nutrients. With ...

Oregon Health & Science University researchers have developed a new lab model to study how changes in cervical mucus during the menstrual cycle help regulate fertility. This model could help develop ...

A new report published in Frontiers of Endocrinology explores how oral contraceptive pill (OCP) use interacts with the current hormonal status to affect the fear circuit structure within the brain.

It’s a weird time to talk about contraceptives. Here's what the debate is missing.

In 1886, chemist W. J. Rendell manufactured the first birth control suppository. It contained a cocoa butter shell for suppositories that melted in the body to release the medication quinine, a drug ...