In her new book "The Stronger Sex," science journalist Starre Vartan dispels myths and misconceptions about the female body.

If a fertilized egg burrows somewhere other than the uterine lining, it’s called an ectopic pregnancy. About 90% of ectopic pregnancies occur when the embryo implants in one of the fallopian tubes.

In vitro fertilization, or IVF, is when an egg is removed from a woman’s body and combined with sperm inside a laboratory before being implanted, said Dr. Eve Feinberg, associate professor of ...

The egg and sperm each have 23 chromosomes (most other cells in the body have 46 — in 23 pairs). Through the process of fertilization, the 23 chromosomes from the egg and the 23 from the sperm ...