Imagine, if you will, a world so small and intricate that it makes the average cell look like a lumbering giant. A world where the miracle of life unfolds in a dazzling array of cellular choreography. This is the world of reproductive medicine and fetal development, and thanks to a marvel of modern science called mass cytometry (or CyTOF, for those in the know), we’re finally beginning to make sense of it all.
Now, dear reader, you might be wondering what on earth mass cytometry has to do with babies. Well, pull up a chair and let me tell you a tale that winds its way from the halls of the Leiden University Medical Center to the pages of prestigious scientific journals, with a supporting role played by yours truly.
You see, back in the day, I found myself in the hallowed halls of LUMC, not as the star of the show, mind you, but as a supporting actor in a fascinating drama unfolding in the world of reproductive medicine. I had the good fortune to be the third author on a paper with the catchy title “Visualizing Dynamic Changes at the Maternal-Fetal Interface Throughout Human Pregnancy by Mass Cytometry”, van der Zwan et al. (2020) published in Frontiers. It’s not exactly “War and Peace,” but in the world of reproductive biology, it was quite the page-turner.
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