Women in India who choose to freeze their eggs take charge of their reproductive future, adjusting to life's unpredictable ...

In Liberia, human rights defenders are raising alarms over a growing wave of movements opposing family diversity, quietly gaining traction under the banner of "family values." These campaigns, often ...

Russian authorities are restricting access to safe abortion care and limiting the ability of women and girls to get accurate information about their reproductive choices.

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Researchers should urgently think about how humans can reproduce in space, experts have said. As humanity looks towards living beyond Earth, we need to understand how human reproduction will actually ...

What scientists do know from limited laboratory experiments and astronaut data is that space presents a demanding environment for human biology. Exposure to cosmic radiation, altered gravity, ...

One year into President Donald Trump’s return to office, his authoritarian practices are eroding human rights and weakening the systems meant to protect them. Universities have come under pressure to ...

The vast dataset allowed the Johns Hopkins University-led team to demonstrate robust connections between specific variations in a mother's DNA and their risk of miscarriage. The findings shed new ...

Master is associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and associate director of Wake Forest University’s Center for ...