As a part of my part of my python programming course I have an assignment. I can pick a python library of my choice and give a demo. (Its a group project involving 3 people) We chose PyTorch as our library of interest. I have been reading since yesterday about PyTorch. Codecademy is a super great resource that I found online. I’ve been using it a little over a year now and its amazing. For someone who knows nothing about programming, its a great place to start. I took this really short course on codecademy on PyTorch and neural networks. Here’s what I learned.

A lot has happed in the past 2 months of my life. I married the love of my life. I moved to a new country and am a student again! Working on impactful research has been a longing pursuit since them past 4 years of my life. And I’ve only kept at it at every step of the way. Looking at where I am now and back at the past 4 years, it all makes sense. I am currently a master’s student at NYU studying Biomedical Informatics. NYU is one of the top medical schools and they are doing really good research.

Accessible Healthcare vs Affordable Healthcare Most individuals need to be more positive about visiting a doctor. The strong belief of a lot of people in my country (India) is that hospitals are there to cheat and once you visit them, they will be charged a hefty amount and asked to take multiple tests which might be unnecessary. Although I agree with this, I have a different opinion about healthcare services in India. As an Embryologist I have worked in healthcare for the past 5 years. Healthcare is certainly expensive. Since I am an Embryologist I can break down the expenses of an IVF cycle.

I work as an embryologist. I am the super scientist that makes IVF babies (test tube babies, logically petri dish babies but, nvm). IVF is more than an invasive procedure. There is so much emotion involved. Couples come to me (us) after multiple failures of achieving a pregnancy naturally in hopes of conceiving and having a baby (immediately in the first attempt). Most often these couples have a tragic history of infertility for several years and it usually takes more than one IVF attempt for these couples. You might wonder why people go through such an emotionally and physically draining procedure, one might just adopt.

Managing an IVF lab is no task at hand. With every waking day, I only pray that I do not come across any unsolvable problem. Right from the paperwork to handling gametes one needs to be highly vigilant and especially in the clean rooms such as the IVF lab. Handling stock solutions/culture media. There are 2 types of media used for IVF. The CO2 dependant and CO2-independent. All media are to be used when at 37.0 degrees. The CO2-dependent media requires equilibration. The general practice is to aliquot the media necessary for the next day’s case and keep it in the CO2 incubator for overnight equilibration.

Hey there! I know it has been a long time. Things have changed in 2 years. I am no more a student. I am an embryologist now, working in Manipal hospital Bangalore. It has been 6 months since I took up this job and it is excellent. I’m managing the lab end to end right from documentation, and QA QC to ICSI, and embryo transfer. I hope to write more here about my lab experiences and what I am reading.

One of my recent reads was about the mitochondria in the oocyte. The mitochondria is more than merely just the boring sentence “power house of a cell”. I mean, it is what it is but, there is more insight that goes into the phrase. It is known that mitochondria is of paramount importance with regard to the cell’s respiratory activities. However, what I did not know was that the mitochondrial DNA content is highly variable. In this, I talk mainly about the mitochondrial DNA content in oocyte aka the female gamete. Briefly, the oocyte develops from the primordial germ cell. Around the 5th week of gestation, these primordial germ cells migrate to the future gonads and begin proliferating to produce oogonia (surrounded by follicular cells) which then develops into the primary oocyte which is arrested at prophase 1 of meiosis 1.

The geometric clutch hypothesis is a brilliant paper that I read a few months back. Been wanting to write about it for quite some time now. This paper explains in detail about the motility of the spermatozoa (eukaryotic axonemal function) Just when I thought I was done with all the physics in school, the principle behind the motility of the spermatozoa is completely physical. The functioning of the sperm motility is almost equally compared with the functioning of a motor. Honestly I have never enjoyed reading the laws of physics so much as I was reading this paper. The male gamete is the only motile cell in a living organism that reproduces sexually.

Hormones are fascinating indeed. The function of each is so intricate which makes it even more unfathomable as to how perfectly they function in concert with each other in a normal self. Despite exposing this self to food, drugs and other chemicals. Since I am majoring in reproductive science I spend my time reading mostly related topics. Hence, I will be writing about the hormones respective to that. It is known that GnRH is secreted by the Hypothalamus which in turn stimulates the master gland, the pituitary to release the gonadotropins (a.k.a sex hormones) which then proceeds further in performing its various functions.

title: Marrying my best friend! date: 2022-07-23 description: Home authors: [“roopini”] tags: home love bestfriend