Media Coverage
The work done by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members (and even some students) is regularly highlighted in newspapers, online media outlets and more. Below you’ll find links to articles and videos of Feinberg in the news.
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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All-female NU research team’s breakthrough: 3-D printed ovary
An all-female team of researchers at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and McCormick School of Engineering has managed to use a 3-D printer to create a fully functioning prosthetic ovary in mice. The artificial organ has the potential to change the way human infertility is treated. Featuring Teresa K. Woodruff and Dr. Monica Loranda
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U.S. News & World Report
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Mouse Gives Birth to Pups Using 3-D Printed Ovary
In another step forward in the world of 3-D printed tissues, U.S. scientists report they’ve created a “bioprosthetic” ovary in a mouse using the technology — and the mouse has given birth to healthy pups. “These bioprosthetic ovaries have long-term, durable function,” said researcher Teresa K. Woodruff , of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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WebMD
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Mouse Gives Birth to Pups Using 3-D Printed Ovary
In another step forward in the world of 3-D printed tissues, U.S. scientists report they’ve created a “bioprosthetic” ovary in a mouse using the technology — and the mouse has given birth to healthy pups. “These bioprosthetic ovaries have long-term, durable function,” said researcher Teresa K. Woodruff , of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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CBS News
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Mouse Gives Birth to Pups Using 3-D Printed Ovary
In another step forward in the world of 3-D printed tissues, U.S. scientists report they’ve created a “bioprosthetic” ovary in a mouse using the technology — and the mouse has given birth to healthy pups. “These bioprosthetic ovaries have long-term, durable function,” said researcher Teresa K. Woodruff , of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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HealthDay
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Mouse Gives Birth to Pups Using 3-D Printed Ovary
In another step forward in the world of 3-D printed tissues, U.S. scientists report they’ve created a “bioprosthetic” ovary in a mouse using the technology — and the mouse has given birth to healthy pups. “These bioprosthetic ovaries have long-term, durable function,” said researcher Teresa K. Woodruff , of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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TIME
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3-D Printed Ovaries Are Helping Mice to Get Pregnant
“What happens with some of our cancer patients is that their ovaries don’t function at a high enough level and they need to use hormone replacement therapies in order to trigger puberty,” said Dr. Monica Loranda , a co-lead author of the study.
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ABC News
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3-D printed ovaries help mice get pregnant, show promise for fertility treatments
“A successful human bioprosthetic could have a wide range of applications,” said Dr. Monica Loranda , the lead author of the paper and researcher at Northwestern University. She said the women who may be helped include those who have reproductive development disorders, had cancer as children or who had rheumatological disease.
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Reuters
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Weight loss tied to lower risk of knee joint degeneration
Even so, the study offers fresh evidence of how weight loss may benefit the knee joints, said Dr. Leena Sharma , director of the Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center in Rheumatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. “This study uniquely gets at the benefits of weight loss on specific tissue abnormalities in knee osteoarthritis and convincingly demonstrates the benefit of weight loss on the course of this common condition,” Sharma, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email.
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CNN
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3-D printed ovary allows infertile mouse to mate and give birth
A new era of regenerative medicine could be on the horizon. A 3-D printed ovary allowed an infertile mouse to naturally mate and then go on to give birth to two pups of their own, according to new research published Tuesday in Nature Communications. The 3-D printed bioprosthetic ovary, as it’s termed, is “the holy grail of bioengineering for regenerative medicine,” said Teresa K. Woodruff ,, a reproductive scientist and director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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TODAY
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Is the HPV vaccine safe?
Featuring: Melissa Simon, MD, professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Preventive Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine
Currently, the vaccine is recommended for girls and young women between the ages of 9 and 26, said Dr. Melissa Simon , vice chair of clinical research in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. It’s also recommended for boys and men between 9 and 21, she added. Many parents are worried that vaccinating kids against a sexually transmitted disease will make them promiscuous, but experts say that’s not true.“It doesn’t make them want more sex,” Simon said. If that concern is what’s holding you back, just tell your children they’re getting the vaccine to prevent cancer, Moore said.
