Sperm with DNA damage might be the true cause of repeated miscarriages

New guidelines say testing sperm for DNA damage could help explain recurrent pregnancy losses

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Multi-ancestry genome-wide association and integrated multi-omics analyses of endometriosis and its clinical manifestations - Nature Genetics

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses coupled with multi-omics integration identify new risk loci for endometriosis and adenomyosis, shed light on underlying molecular mechanisms and suggest...

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Androgens help monocytes deliver pain relief

Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 05 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01287-1Androgens support IL-10-expressing monocytes that alleviate inflammatory pain.

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Pregnancy brings unique challenges for people with autoimmune diseases – but with early planning, pregnancy outcomes can be greatly improved

Advances in research and medicine have given doctors helpful tools to assess a person’s individual risk and to help prepare them for pregnancy.

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Can Pregnancy Risks Be Telegraphed in the Cellular Mom-Baby Link?

A new study by UCSF researchers who mapped the maternal-fetal interface, which is the boundary where the mother's uterus and the developing baby's placenta meet, has yielded some surprising findings with potential public health consequences.

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Omega-3 testing to be introduced in SA to prevent preterm birth

The South Australian government has announced that pregnant women will be able to access free omega-3 blood tests from next month.

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The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births?

The social and economic impact of people living longer and having fewer babies is hitting countries worldwide. Adaptation is key

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Tea tree oil may affect fertility, the EU says. A pharmacologist explains why that’s so misleading

Tea tree oil has been linked to fertility issues. But the experiments were done in rats. Here’s what else is behind the scary headlines.

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Female mice grow testes after this single DNA tweak

Small changes in the non-coding part of the genome have a key role in sex determination.

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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination in Pregnancy and Risk of Infection in Early Childhood

10.1542/6386879373112Video AbstractPEDS-VA_2025-0736616386879373112OBJECTIVE. To examine associations between COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and the risk of various infections in early childhoo...

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Simulated microgravity alters sperm navigation, fertilization and embryo development in mammals - Communications Biology

Simulated microgravity reveals species-specific effects on sperm navigation, fertilization, and early embryo development, highlighting compensatory mechanisms and chemical cues critical for reproducti...

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Sperm get lost in space, Australian research into microgravity impacts suggests

Study into how fertilisation could work in space finds sperm may get disorientated when trying to find an egg Sperm in space are likely to get disoriented and lost while struggling to find their way to an egg, a new study has found. When exposed to microgravity in experiments, sperm tumble around like an untethered astronaut, according to Adelaide University researchers. Continue reading...

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More equitable preconception health: paternal life course opportunities for better pregnancy, child, and family outcomes

Men and partners are important contributors to the health of future generations, yet their own preconception health and wellbeing remain secondary considerations in research, practice, and policy. Sil...

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A single-cell time-series atlas of endothelial cell embryonic development

The STED-EC atlas enables inter-organ and multi-time-point comparisons of gene expression in endothelial cells, revealing substantial transcriptomic variations across endothelial cells from different ...

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It's a dangerous complication of pregnancy -- but a new drug holds promise

Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

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Laws restricting abortions linked to rise in 'abhorrently high' maternal mortality rates

Rising state-level abortion restrictions in the United States were linked to a similar, parallel rise in maternal deaths from 2005 to 2023, according to research presented at The Pregnancy Meeting. ...

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Endogenous retroviruses synthesize heterologous chimeric RNAs to reinforce human early embryo development

Zygotic genome activation (ZGA) failure leads to developmental arrest and poses a clinical challenge to women’s fertility. We observed that human embryos arresting at the eight-cell ZGA stage exhibite...

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Prior abortion or miscarriage not linked to increased risk of pre- or postmenopausal breast cancer

A prior abortion or miscarriage was not linked with an increased risk of developing pre- or postmenopausal breast cancer in a study published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.

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Plasma markers of neurological injury are elevated in preeclampsia

Preeclampsia, a medical complication of pregnancy, is associated with central nervous system (CNS) signs and symptoms, such as headache, hyperexcitabi…

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Programmed mitophagy at the oocyte-to-zygote transition promotes lineage endurance - Nature Cell Biology

Thendral et al. describe a mitophagic programme that removes deleterious mtDNA during the oocyte-to-zygote transition in Caenorhabditis elegans, promoting mitochondrial health and offspring survival. ...

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Risk and burden of adverse birth outcomes associated with flood exposure in China: A 4.4 million mother-infant cohort study

The risks and attributable burden of adverse birth outcomes from flooding remain unclear. Here, we analyzed a nationwide cohort of over 4.4 million mo…

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Age‐Associated Inflammatory Monocytes Are Increased in Menopausal Females and Reversed by Hormone Replacement Therapy

Post-menopausal females (> 64 years) have an increase in frequency of inflammatory monocyte populations with defective phagocytosis as compared to pre-menopausal (< 40 years) females. Hormone Replace....

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Harnessing comparative biology to understand climate change induced heat stress impacts on maternal and offspring health at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Harnessing comparative biology to understand climate change induced heat stress impacts on maternal and offspring health at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Seminal fluid expands the uterine gamma/delta T cell pool during early pregnancy in mice

Seminal fluid elicits an immune response in the uterine mucosa after mating that impacts embryo implantation and pregnancy, but the underlying molecul…

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