Ep. 281: “Fertility Treatments” Featuring Drs. Dina Radenkovic and Bruna Paulsen

Guest:

Drs. Dina Radenkovic (now Dina Turner) and Bruna Paulsen are Co-Founder & CEO and VP of Manufacturing and Therapeutic development at Gameto, a biotech company developing treatment solutions to improve women’s reproductive health. Their lead platform, Fertilo, uses ovarian support cells to mature oocytes outside of the body with the goal of making IVF and egg freezing shorter, safer, and more effective.

Featured Products and Resources:

• Learn more about organoid applications for studying human health with STEMCELL’s “Dynamic Modeling in Organoids” Wallchart.
• Generate functional fallopian tube organoids in 10 days with GyneCult™. 

The Stem Cell Science Round Up:

Sleep Speeds Healing  – Immune cells that promote sleep are recruited to the brain after myocardial infarction.

Epigenetic Regulators of iPSC-T Cell Differentiation – CAR iPSC-T cells derived via G9a/GLP inhibition display enhanced antitumor activity.

Minimizing Off-Target Toxicity – Researchers identified carbonic anhydrase 12 as a druggable target for doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity.

Cell Division in Differentiation – Researchers have shown that cell state transitions are decoupled from cell division during early embryo development.

Images courtesy of Drs. Dina Radenkovic and Bruna Paulsen