My pre-print from the Shikanov Lab is live! We detail oocyte and somatic transcriptome, and whole follicle proteome signatures driving folliculogenesis in vitro towards improved ART. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Researchers identify bacteria in the maternal gut microbiome linked to a higher risk of preterm birth. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social #WestLakeUniversity Ju-Sheng Zheng & colleagues

In an unorthodox study, researchers invented a special kind of floss that can protect against infectious disease. In the process, they had to do something no scientist had done before-- try to floss a mouse. My newest in @science.org 🐁🦷 www.science.org/content/arti...

Sex at birth may not be purely random, according to a new #ScienceAdvances study. Instead, each family’s likelihood of having only male or only female children is a “weighted coin toss” influenced by maternal age and genetics. scim.ag/3ILwz3O

"Despite my discomfort and the potential for backlash, I need to make myself visible as a single parent and to advocate for change." On #NationalParentsDay, read about how this researcher has advocated for more support for grad student parents. scim.ag/3UpZSLJ

Check out our pre-print! www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Three-month summer holidays as a child in northwest Italy helped Stefano Sandrone to hone his relaxation and holiday-planning skills. Here’s his advice for scientists https://go.nature.com/4kCp1yt

Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy https://go.nature.com/3FTDeaZ

so grateful to be named one of this year’s fellows! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

Graduate students are not machines. Behaving like one during your programme will leave you frustrated and unfulfilled https://go.nature.com/3RSKTss

Despite dubbing himself the “Father of IVF,” Donald Trump actually WILL NOT be funding federal infertility research. Trump has fired an entire infertility research team at the CDC.

Researchers describe how they are using skills honed in the laboratory in their creative pursuits https://go.nature.com/4jkH8Ii

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

Congratulations to the new Dr. Jordan Machlin and the Shikanov Lab the latest publication on single-cell analysis of human oocytes. We spent many, many hours searching for eggs under the microscope 🔬 and found minimal differences in fresh vs. cryopreserved oocytes. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39919251/

thoroughly enjoyed listening to this fantastic interview with @michelleoyen.bsky.social on the MOTHER podcast! it will be truly amazing to watch the next generation of women in STEM take on amazing engineering challenges to advance women's health ✨ open.spotify.com/episode/4hhs...