Caroline Gargett, a biologist at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research in Australia, studies endometrial stem cells. She has short hair, wears glasses, and smiles at the camera.
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Two decades ago, Caroline Gargett identified adult stem cells in the endometrium. Now, she explores their functions to improve women’s health.

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A New View of My Own Past

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Uterus Transplants Hit the Clinic

Opinion: How Biomedicine Could Transform Human Reproduction

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Study that Impregnated Male Rats Stirs Controversy

Lab-Grown Mouse Embryos Form Limbs and Organs

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Two Genes Conspire in Endometriosis and Cancer to Help Cells Migrate

Image of the Day: It’s a Shark!

Rat Study Points to Role of Uterus in Memory

First Child Delivered from Womb Transplanted from Dead Donor

First Uterus Transplant in U.S.

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Universe 25 Experiment

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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An AI-Powered Scientist Proposes a Treatment for Blindness

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Electronic Records in Cell Culture Management

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Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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