Visiting a gynecologist is a big step towards taking control of your health as a woman. Know what kind of exams will happen during your first gynecologist visit and what to expect from your first gyno exam. Your first gynecologist visit is designed to be a supportive, educational, and non-intimidating experience. Whether you’re there for … Read more
Infertility is inferred as the couple’s inefficacy to conceive a baby after having regular unprotected intercourse for a year or more. Infertility can greatly increase the amount of stress and anxiety in a relationship. Therefore, we need to normalize talking about infertility. Here, you will know all the details of infertility. Infertility is a global … Read more
Hypomorphic and hypermorphic mouse models of Fibrous Sheath Interacting Protein 2 (FSIP2) indicate its dose-dependent roles in sperm tail and acrosome formation. New Hope for Male Infertility Depends on Flagellar Protein Male infertility affects more than 20 million men worldwide. Often, male infertility is caused by defects in the sperm’s tail (flagellum). A flagellum is … Read more
Prostatitis is swelling and inflammation of the prostate gland (a walnut-sized gland located between the bladder and the penis). Prostatitis can come on suddenly and be severe or come and go over several months. Prostatitis can be caused by an infection, as well as various other causes and it often causes painful or difficult urination. … Read more
Endocrine system is an integrated system of glands, each of which secretes different types of hormones that travel through the blood. The hormones travel through the bloodstream, communicate within the human body and bind to special receptors on the target cells. Hormones regulate the vital functions in the body: metabolism, growth and development, sleep, tissue … Read more
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) refers to all fertility treatments and procedures to tackle infertility, in which both eggs and embryos are handled to achieve pregnancy. ART procedures include in-vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET), frozen embryo transfer (FET), gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) and zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT). ART techniques also apply to oocyte donation and gestational carriers. There has … Read more
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common hormonal endocrine disorders affecting a woman’s hormone levels and causing enlarged ovaries with small sacs on the outer edges and failure to release eggs regularly. Women with PCOS produce a higher amount of male hormones than normal. This hormone imbalance causes them to skip their … Read more
The Gal4 gene is a transcription factor. Transcription factors encode a protein that triggers genes. The Gal4 protein identifies a so-called upstream activator sequence (UAS), which can involve the expression of a gene of interest. The fruit fly Drosophila is powerful for the study of development and disease and has many tools to genetically modify … Read more