Fertile Ground: Work at MIT?s Center for Gynepathology Research is Revealing How Tissue Engineering Can Help Address Gynecological Disorders

Jennifer Berglund
IEEE pulse · 2017 · vol. 8(5) , pp. 42–45 · doi:10.1109/mpul.2017.2729720 · PMID:28961096 · W2756666223
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The article highlights Linda Griffith’s experience with severe menstrual pain and introduces her work at the MIT Center for Gynepathology Research, which explores how tissue engineering can address gynecological disorders.

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At the age of 14, Linda Griffith experienced such abnormally painful periods that her doctor had already put her on birth control pills. They helped but only a little. In graduate school, a boyfriend convinced her to go off the pills, and her periods became so painful, she couldn't walk.

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Genital Diseases, Female Tissue Engineering Female Genital Diseases, Female Humans Research

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