By Özge ÖzkayaMenstural Blood: A Medium Full of Information for Reproductive Diseases
By Özge Özkaya
A study published in ImmunoHorizons by Dr. April Rees and colleagues from Swansea University Medical School, UK, demonstrates that menstrual blood provides a biologically informative and non-invasive window into immune processes underlying reproductive diseases. Using an optimized high-dimensional,27-color flow cytometry platform…
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By Selma OransayMenstrual blood-derived stem cells
By Selma Oransay
Chen et al. from the Center of Diagnosis and Treatment of İnfectious Disease, Zhejiang University, China penned this recent review in the Journal of Stem Cell Research Therapy which is presenting the clinical potential of MenSCs (Menstrual blood-derived stem cells). …
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Could Endometriosis Be Caused by Bacteria?
By Özge Özkaya
A new concept called the bacterial contamination hypothesis in endometriosis has been proposed for the first time by researchers in Japan. This means that new potential therapies approaches could exist for this condition in addition to the conventional estrogen-suppressing therapies.…
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