#ReproSci

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-06-22

“The enduring myth of the wandering womb reflected broader anxieties about the female body: that it was unpredictable, unruly and in need of control. Today, with the benefit of imaging, dissection and anatomical research, we can replace that myth with a deeper understanding of purposeful mobility.”
#Science #ReproSci #Scicomm
theconversation.com/wandering-

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-06-20

Had to revisit our paper from 2018 for a future project…boy I love the immunofluorescence microscopy we did on the human placenta.
#FluorescenceFriday #Science #Placenta #ReproSci
bmcdevbiol.biomedcentral.com/a

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-06-17

“pelvic floor problems aren’t only caused by pregnancy and childbirth. In fact, research shows that intense physical activity, even in women who have never been pregnant or given birth, can contribute to dysfunction.”
#ReproSci #ObGyn #Medicine #WomensHealth
theconversation.com/pelvic-flo

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-06-05

Sex is complicated.

“Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy, a study in Nature reports. This is the first-known example of a dietary mineral affecting sex determination”
#ReproSci #Science #Development

nature.com/articles/d41586-025

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-05-30
Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-05-19

“Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage might”
#Scicomm #Science #ReproSci #Placenta
theconversation.com/placenta-b

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-05-19
Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-05-19

“Removing methylation specifically in the placenta allows expression of transposons, so-called 'jumping genes' which help modify when and where host genes are expressed. These modifications may contribute to the placenta being one of the most rapidly evolving organs in mammals"
#ReproSci #Placenta #Science #Evolution #Marsupials

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-05-13

Running on Empty: The Hidden Impact of Iron Deficiency in Perimenopausal Women
#ReproSci #MedMastodon #Menopause #WomensHealth #Health
vajenda.substack.com/p/running

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-05-09

“There was no association between being vaccinated and having a miscarriage, the researchers found. Furthermore, the number of vaccine doses, type of vaccine (Moderna, Pfizer, etc.), and the timing of the vaccination were not linked to miscarriage.”
#ReproSci #Science #VaccinesWork #Pregnancy
medicine.yale.edu/news-article

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-05-04
Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-05-04

“The findings demonstrated that vaccinating women with diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis vaccine in pregnancy was safe and well tolerated and boosted the quantity and quality of pertussis-specific antibodies in infants in early life.”
#VaccinesWork #ReproSci #Science
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-05-04
Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-05-04

“The genes of male and female placentas have marked differences in how they are expressed”
#placenta #ReproSci #Science #Development
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-04-23
Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦dmacphee@mas.to
2025-04-22

Genes involved in severe morning sickness identified.
“In collaboration with the consumer genetics company 23andMe, she conducted an analysis of people with HG that identified two genes involved: GDF15 and IGFBP7.”
#ReproSci #Science #Scicomm #Pregnancy
scientificamerican.com/article

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