As an eager tester of new therapies to reduce her biological age, or how fast she is aging internally, Barnes-Lentz thrives on collecting more data about her health. It’s especially important for her ...

When an expansive curlicue of tissue sitting below the ovaries was discovered more than a century ago, it was dismissed as useless and erased from biology textbooks. Biologists now are taking a new ...

An ultrasound image of a human ovary that used shear wave elastography to assess ovarian stiffness by detecting and measuring fibrotic tissue. Medication to reduce ovarian scarring helps extends ...

This series was created for Google, the Buck Institute, Optispan and Phenome Health by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Women live far longer ...