A team led by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard has found that the most common bacterial community in the genital tract among healthy South African women not only is significantly…
More than 50 clinicians and scientists gathered last month to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Society for Internationally Trained Women Faculty and Fellows at BWH. The celebration was hosted by the Office for Women’s Careers (OWC), part of the…
The BWH Genital Tract Biology laboratory was recently accredited by the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) as a result of an onsite inspection, making BWH now part of 7,000 CAP-accredited facilities around the world.…
In just a decade, the BWH Research Division and Laboratory of Genital Tract Biology in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology has had several ground-breaking accomplishments. This year, the lab celebrates its 10-year anniversary under the leadership of…
When humans have parasites, the organisms live in our bodies, co-opt our resources, and cause disease. However, it turns out that parasites themselves can have their own co-habitants. Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and State University…
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues at Children’s Hospital of Boston have found that specific types of bacteria that colonize the placenta during pregnancy could prevent illness or predispose to illness associated with preterm birth. These findings are…