Marcela Tabima has focused her fascination with human biology on two major research efforts in the Discovery Building — engineering synthetic arteries for surgery and finding new ways to treat inherited retinal diseases.
Category: Regenerative Biology
All creatures great and small: Sequencing the blue whale and Etruscan shrew genomes
Researchers illustrated that size doesn’t matter when they assembled sequences for two new reference genomes — one from the world’s largest mammal and one of the smallest.
Development in fertility research questions obesity as the leading cause of infertility
A project spearheaded by scientist Rodrigo Dutra Nunes in the Drummond-Barbosa Lab found that a high-sugar diet, and not obesity, causes decreased fertility in fruit flies.
Rising Sparks: Odette Herrand, regenerative biology
Odette Herrand is drawn to the inherent creativity involved in answering complex scientific questions, which they use to study fertility in the fruit fly.
Fruit fly research is heating up at Morgridge
The increasing impacts of climate change include the effect on fertility as a factor that could decide an organism’s survival or extinction. New research reveals how chronic exposure to warm temperatures affects sperm development in the model organism, Drosophila.