Podcast Episodes

Eavesdropping on the first trimester: using new technology to better understand early maternal-placental crosstalk, Conversation with Dr. Shirley Greenbaum

 As scientists have come to learn more about serious pregnancy complications like preeclampsia and premature birth, they believe that some of those c…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

IVF & Egg Banking; Emerging Tech Trends in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)

 We can initiate a pregnancy by handling eggs and sperm outside the human body. We can remove these elemental factors from people fundamentally chang…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Ovaries: the living Vault of your Fertility

 Question, are ovaries the most underrated organ? Answer: Yes. They're the workhorse of your menstrual cycle, this critical process that happens agai…

3 months, 1 week ago

Opening the black box of implantation with a model uterine lining: Conversation with Dr. Irene Zorzan, Part II

 Today we'll continue our conversation about Project Implantation. 

In last week's episode, we were focused on how the model of the uterine lining was…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Building a 3-D model of a uterine lining to better understand implantation: Conversation with Dr. Irene Zorzan, Part I

Today we're going to talk about what I'm calling Project Implantation. 

It's a bold experimental model that creates a 3D version of a uterine lining a…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

How Fetal Sex influences Pregnancy Complications: Conversation with Dr. Vicki Clifton, Part II

 The sex of the fetus often isn't even mentioned until the 20 week scan, but as my conversation with Dr. Clifton suggests, fetal sex can have real im…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

How the Sex of the Placenta Affects Pregnancy: Conversation with Dr. Vicki Clifton, Part I

 Lots of research has been done trying to understand how the human placenta is similar to and different from placentas of other mammals; to specifica…

4 months ago

A Blood Test to predict the risk of Postpartum Depression: Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Payne, rebroadcast

Postpartum depression is the most common complication of pregnancy.

Given our current ability to measure it we think it will affect 10-15% of pregnanc…

4 months, 1 week ago

Renovating the Uterus in Early Pregnancy: the collab between immune cells and fetal cells, Conversation with Dr. Ashley Moffett, Part 2

 One of the first things on an embryo's to-do list is to make a placenta, but to do this, it will need to work well with the decidual cells occupying…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

uNK Cells and the Placenta: The Immune System’s Role in Healthy Early Pregnancy, Conversation with Dr. Ashley Moffett, Part I

Although your OB usually doesn’t want to see you in the early weeks of pregnancy—there’s a lot going on that is of critical importance to the ease or…

5 months ago