Manon Oud 
This time we bring an interview to get to know our first invited speaker at the 14th NYRA meeting, which will take place in Norwich from 19-21st of September 2022. Dr. Raheleh Rahbari obtained her PhD in Medical Genetics at the University of Leicester, after which she joined the Wellcome Sanger Institute as a post-doctoral …
By MANON OUD Approximately 1% of all men fail to produce sperm at all. In a recent publication in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nagirnaja and Mørup et al. demonstrate one of the causes for such complete lack of sperm production, which is called non-obstructive azoospermia. The results point to a direct mechanistic effect …
By MANON OUD Approximately 1 in 6 couples is unable to conceive after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse. In roughly half of all infertility cases there is a male factor involved. Considered predominantly a genetic condition, currently the majority of patients with a severe form of infertility remains unexplained. Recently, Whitfield et al. discovered …