A chemical messenger produced in the body, for example testosterone. Hormones can travel through the blood and have an effect elsewhere in the body.
Researchers have succeeded in reversing the symptoms of diabetes in mice by carrying out pancreas cell transplants. The team, from the University of Florida, published their results in this month's issue of Nature Medicine. The mice had the equivalent of Type 1 - or childhood-diabetes - which affects 100,000 children in the...
The doctors involved in pioneering ovarian graft surgery, with the potential to treat sufferers of premature menopause and restore cancer victims' fertility, remained upbeat about the process despite reports that the initial operation has not been as successful as was hoped. The operation, carried out in February this year, involved...
Scientists have transplanted ovarian tissue into a woman for the first time. In a procedure that had only been carried out in animals, ovarian tissue, which had previously been removed from a woman and frozen, was transplanted back into her body. The breakthrough was made by Professor Roger Gosden of...
Scientists claim to have identified the genetic basis for monogamy which could lead to a better understanding of psychiatric disorders. Tom Insel and Larry Young from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia transferred a gene from the sociable, monogamous male prairie vole into male mice. The gene is responsible for making...
A fertility test that measures the viability of eggs in a woman's ovaries may soon give women the ability to tell the time on the proverbial biological clock. The test is the result of six years of work by Oxford scientists who discovered that levels of the hormone, inhibin B...
A study has found that an experimental drug which normalises insulin use in the body could be the basis of a treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome, a common cause of infertility. Affecting between 5 and 10 percent of women of reproductive age, the condition leads to cyst filled ovaries and...
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