Every lab needs its cell samples to be as accurate as possible, and automated pipetting processes can help ensure maximum accuracy and repeatability when transferring fluids. Pipettes are a vital part of the endocrine lab – just like fume hoods and microscopes – but one pipette does not fit all. French chemist and microbiologist Louis...
Learning Curve: Getting Schooled by Award-Winning Endocrine Educators
Endocrine News reached out to a few of the Endocrine Society’s Outstanding Educator Laureates to share insights into the state of endocrine education. Ann Danoff, MD; Kenneth Burman, MD; Laurence Katznelson, MD; and Carolyn Becker, MD, discuss the past, present, and future of educating endocrinologists, the best advice they’ve ever received, and how they motivate...New Study Makes Case for Culturing Embryos Up to Seven Days Post-Insemination for Selected Patients
Ending embryo culture at 144 hours (six days) post-insemination (h.p.i.) would involve 7.3 percent and 4.4 percent relative reductions in the number of patients obtaining euploid blastocysts and live birth(s) (LBs), respectively, according to a study published in Human Reproduction. The study results were announced recently by Fairtility, a company using artificial intelligence to enhance in...
Endocrine News talks to Shingo Kajimura, PhD, the Endocrine Society’s 2022 Richard E. Weitzman Outstanding Early Career Investigator Laureate Award, about his research of brown and beige fat, challenges his lab faced during the pandemic, and why early-career researchers should just make sure the “science works out.” With his significant contributions to changing how...
Endocrine News talks to Michael W. Schwartz, MD, the 2022 Laureate recipient of the Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research about his life and career in academic research that all started with a fascination with how the brain controls behavior. With his significant contributions in uncovering how our brain regulates energy balance and glucose...
Endocrine News talks to Terry J. Smith, MD, the 2022 Gerald D. Aurbach Laureate for Outstanding Translational Research, who discusses his career focusing on Graves disease, the pharmaceutical he helped develop, and what advice he has for young researchers. Early in medical school, Terry J. Smith, MD, had more questions about thyroid disease than his...The Weakest Link: How Supply Chain Shortages Are Creating Challenges at the Bench
COVID-19 has impacted the healthcare world for almost two years now, but the aftershocks continue to ripple outward. As factories slowly reopen and scientists return to their labs, the lack of materials needed for research is slowing down science. We are still assessing the total impact the COVID-19 pandemic had around the globe. Beyond the...
Is It Time for a New Approach to Treating Cushing’s Syndrome?
David A. Katz, PhD, CSO of Sparrow Pharmaceuticals, launched the company to specifically target the therapies bigger companies were ignoring. He talks to Endocrine News about these new therapies and how they could possibly change the way people with Cushing’s syndrome, autonomous cortisol syndrome, and other disorders are treated. For many endocrine researchers, their career...
