Category: News & Articles
Scientists at the forefront of sperm cell biology and fertilisation research throughout the world have gathered in ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... John Aitken is a world leader in the area of reproductive biology and biotechnology, heading the Priority Research Centre ... aspect of male reproductive health. From the generation of male sperm cells through their growth and development and acquired ability to ... laboratory has identified critical factors that affect male sperm cells and potentially alter reproductive health including ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... solving a large jigsaw puzzle. Some pieces or answers, like reduced sperm number and motility, are right in front of you but there are other ... using it to investigate the relationship between chemotherapy and cell death. Seeking to gain a more intricate understanding of the cell ... has made very significant contributions to our understanding of sperm biology, including sperm proteome. fertility, infertility, pregnancy, ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... Reproduction Stem cells Fertility of childhood cancer survivors Sperm cell biology Why did you get into research? When I was an undergraduate ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... the epithelium that I am blessed to work with is air-liquid interface cell culture. This model allows me to take cells from healthy donors as ... disease (COPD), and grow them until they turn into all the individual cell types that we all have at the airway barrier. Having this ability ... position however, a double-major in Maths/Physics that turned into a Biology major; then from my PhD in reproductive science to my current ...
Category: Research
Reproductive science is the study of the biology of the gamete (sperm and eggs) through to the science behind ... critical influences that may result in DNA damage in the male sperm cell line and affect the success of reproductive technologies. The ...
Category: Research
... registering several patents including a novel method of separating sperm for IVF procedures which improves the chance of successful ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... an early career postdoctoral researcher in the fields of reproductive biology and multiomic analyses and bioinformatics at The University of ... the male reproductive tract, critical to the functional maturation of sperm, as well as transmission of environmental stress signatures to ... career, he published 30 research articles in leading journals such Cell Reports and Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. His strong credentials ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... John Aitken at UON where her research focused on understanding how sperm recognize the egg and how this process goes wrong in cases of ... to spend time investigating the impact of oxidative stress on germ cell development at UON (2016-2018) before moving to Utrecht University, ... Protein homeostasis Germ cell development Lipid oxidation Redox Biology Ageing Why did you get into research? Research satisfies my ...
Category: General
... Development Implantation Failure Miscarriage and Early Pregnancy Loss Sperm Biology Conservation Biology Reproduction Why did you get into ... embryo transfer Vasectomies Ovarian and testis histology assessment Sperm collection (backflushing) and general sperm assays (ie. ...
