Ever heard of the “rete ovarii”? If you answered “no”, you have every reason. Even though it was discovered and described in humans over 150 years ago (drawings of it appear in early copies of Grey’s ...

An intriguing new study reveals the rete ovarii's pivotal contribution to women's reproductive health and fertility, a structure dismissed since its identification in 1870. Researchers at Duke ...

Don’t call it a comeback. For more than a century, an organ in the female reproductive system was written off as useless. However, a recent study suggests that what researchers have called a ...

In this interview, News Medical speak to Irene Walsh, the Director of Product, Design & Content, for 3D4Medical from Elsevier, and Professor Claire Smith, Head of Anatomy at Brighton and Sussex ...

For well over a century, doctors dismissed a horseshoe-shaped structure next to the ovary as useless evolutionary junk, but ...

New research suggested the rete ovarii may play a more active role in ovarian function than scientists once believed, challenging its long-standing classification as a vestigial structure.

Some body parts actually have no use. The tailbone, a third eyelid and multiple obscure muscles fall into the category of human body parts that are no longer necessary to modern humans. For years, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Elsevier has launched "the most advanced 3-D full female model ever available," according to a recent press release. "This is the first time that a female model has been built with this level of ...

In a recent News Hour segment on PBS television, doctors and researchers pointed out that female sexual topics were largely ignored in medical school where mostly male lecturers knew almost nothing ...

Allison Draper loved anatomy class. As a first-year medical student at the University of Miami, she found the language clear, precise, functional. She could look up the Latin term for almost any body ...