Sexual transmission of HIV is the main route for HIV acquisition in women worldwide. 1 HIV present in semen overcomes the epithelial barrier 2 to reach immune target cells in the female reproductive ...

From the Prlic and Lund labs, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division Woodward Davis AS, Vick SC, Pattacini L, Voillet V, Hughes SM, Lentz GM, Kirby AC, Fialkow MF ...

Scientists have created a synthetic version of the female reproductive system that could be used to test drugs and help us better understand women’s health. The tiny system, which is shaped like a ...

Despite the fact that we all start out as an egg cell in one of our mother's ovaries, these human reproductive organs are surprisingly under-studied. Scientists have been working on creating in vitro ...

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, to buy a pregnancy test. But it wasn’t for Moffett. Her postdoc, ...

The fruit fly Drosophila is powerful for studying development and disease and there are many tools to genetically modify its cells. One tool, the Gal4/UAS system, has been a mainstay of Drosophila ...

The female reproductive system includes organs that produce hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Ovaries release one mature egg each month during ovulation. Fallopian tubes transport the egg from ...

During mammalian reproduction, millions of sperm undertake a journey that only one will finish. This journey to fertilization has been commonly viewed as a race: a sea of sperm competing to get to the ...