Oxygen, Volume 2, Issue 1

Although there has been some controversy surrounding exactly when oxygen was first discovered, it is likely that that accolade should go to Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who isolated oxygen in 1772, or even a year earlier. Others since then have been given t...

Mammalian cell culture is widely used for discovery and development. Recently, increasing attention has been paid to the importance of maintaining physiologically-relevant conditions in cell culture. Although oxygen level is a particularly important...

Uterine transplantation may be a solution for infertility of uterine origin. Nevertheless, only three pregnancies with a live birth have so far been possible involving a uterine transplant from a brain-dead donor. Particularly, the impact of ischemia...

Background: Infertility, defined as the failure to conceive after one year of regular, unprotected intercourse, affects 50–80 million people worldwide. A male factor is involved in approximately 20–30% of cases. In the etiology of male in...