Two recent, imaginative, slimy experiments are advancing our knowledge of how to use bacteria to make possibly-healthgiving foods. The newest is reported by Janet Jay, writing in Motherboard: How to Make Breakfast With Your Vagina … Cecilia Westbrook [pictured here] is a friend of mine, and an MD/PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. We […]
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They grew vaginas, they’re growing penises
Anthony Atala and colleagues at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine are busy making replacement parts. Their study “Tissue-engineered autologous vaginal organs in patients: a pilot cohort study” in The Lancet, published this year, tells of the distaff part of the story. A report in The Guardian tells of their efforts to build masculinature: “The lab-grown penis: approaching […]
Histogenesis of the Vagina of the One-Humped Camel
There’s progress at last in elucidating the histogenesis of the vagina of the one-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius). Details are in the study: “Histogenesis of the Vagina of the One-Humped Camel (Camelus dromedarius): Morphological Evidence of the Histochemical Aspects,” Sameh Mohamed Farouk, Abdel-Hamid Kamel Osman [pictured here, lecturing in Japan] and Hussein Eidaroos, Cell and Developmental Biology, […]
Ratto and Bravo on camelids
Today we look back at some too-slightly-celebrated work by Ratto and by Bravo. Ratto on centrifuged artificial llama vagina: “Biochemical isolation and purification of ovulation-inducing factor (OIF) in seminal plasma of llamas,” Marcelo H Ratto [pictured here], Louis TJ Delbaere, Yvonne A Leduc, Roger A Pierson and Gregg P Adams, Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2011; 9: […]