Ivy Natal
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Unlocking human fertility. Part of @indbio Batch 10 (Summer/Fall 2020).
Joined May 2020
Last month I froze my eggs. Several friends have since asked me about it, so I wrote a guide to everything I learned. #eggfreezing #IVF #fertility
https://t.co/ZfnFGtBlvk
junaxup.medium.com
I finally froze my eggs after years of debating and seeing other friends go through the process. All in all, it was a rather easy and…
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Everyone is hiring researchers, so if you're looking to work in this space, DM me and I'll try to connect you with the teams. Approaches vary from producing human oocytes to reprogramming cells. Very cool stuff 🚀
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This is a big deal. Declining birth rates will re-shape not only the economy, but gender roles and social structures too. via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
The birthrate is falling for American women in their 20s, especially in places where the local economy is booming.
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Thank you @ivynatal for the tour today. Definitely the most exciting startup I’ve invested in in a while.
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In Italy in 2020, two people died for every one that was born
Among those who postponed a possible pregnancy is Angela Di Iorio: “Our plan was always to get married and then to start a family,” said the 36-year-old Italian. “We no longer have the kind of stability my partner and I worked so hard to achieve. And I’m getting older.”
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Some thoughts from our team on great @a16z podcast on recent paper related to IVG
Great a16z podcast on the recent paper from @Nobu_Hamazaki @HGLeitch and others (my Twitter name recall fails me 😆) So excited to see it pop up. A few thoughts after the fold... https://t.co/3rIcokdorK
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@NickKristof in Sunday @nytimes: "Many issues in headlines today won’t much matter in a decade, let alone in a century. Climate change is one exception, and another may be the risks to our capacity to reproduce." https://t.co/nO0UesMLmN 1/n
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Low scientific productivity from politically unstable countries/regions makes a lot more sense now, eh?
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Looking forward to an exciting new year, and wishing all of you happy holidays! 🥂🥳
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Want more updates? Drop us an email (hello@ivynatal.com), hit up our DMs, or sign up for our newsletter: https://t.co/QmaIUSYWp9 \
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3. Google’s DeepMind team recently delivered remarkable results on the problem of protein folding. Commentary by @MoAlQuraishi on DeepMind's achievement resonated with us, and prompted us to talk about our motivation to work on IVG as a startup: https://t.co/CEm8ovaVns \
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2. Even as champions of machine learning, one of our earliest successes in applying ML to direct reprogramming surprised us. We (re-)tell that story: https://t.co/kR6dgLYh07 \
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1. There’s an exciting new paper in Nature this month (with lead author @Nobu_Hamazaki) which is related to our work. We talk about the results and their connection: https://t.co/7eBFdZFPBc \
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What do we do when waiting for cells to grow? Write blog posts, apparently! 😆 Here's a trio that have gone up this week... \
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Scary reminder that IVG is an important problem to solve
"potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on...male fertility" prelim report that Sars-Cov-2 damages stem cells that make sperm Science fiction plot: Covid beat by vaccine, but global fertility nosedives. one more reason to freeze your gametes.
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It's Demo Day at @IvyNatal! We are proud of what Ivy Natal has accomplished this summer! Within six months, they have grown to make the world a more equitable place by expanding a women’s ability to choose whether and when to have a child.
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@ivynatal is turning Skin Cells into New Healthy Egg Cells -
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The future of our species depends on procreation, but today the world is at an all-time high in infertility due to disease, stress, and…
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Watching the @indbio demo day. So good to see reproductive medicine well represented. @Microgenesis1 @ivynatal
https://t.co/kRv3fEedZ6
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