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A/Prof Lana McClements

@lanamcclements.bsky.social

Associate Professor & Heart Foundation Future Fellow, Women in Stem Advocate #maternalhealth #placenta #organoids #cardio-obstetrics #cardiovasculardisease #biomarkers #preeclampsia

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Very grateful to be funded by @heartfoundationau.bsky.social to develop a new treatment for peripheral artery disease with collaborators The Heart Research Institute, University of Newcastle and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ๐Ÿ™

@UTS

27.10.2025 08:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Very proud of my PhD students:

Fatemeh Heidari - Society for Reproductive Biology Hudson award finalist ๐Ÿฅณ - super hard working PhD student!

Ananya Raman @anzpra1.bsky.social New Investigator Award finalist ๐Ÿ’ซ

Ashley Bannister - first time presenting at a conference ๐Ÿ‘

#preeclampsia
#placenta

20.10.2025 08:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New in Nature Communications! Researchers @clairerich.bsky.social and @lanamcclements.bsky.social used @10xgenomics.bsky.social single-cell technology to reveal how matrix composition drives trophoblast differentiation in 3D placental organoids
๐Ÿ‘‰ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SingleCell #Organoids

17.10.2025 05:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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3D printed mini-placentas offer a new way to study pregnancy complications โ€˜Placental organoidsโ€™ may help research into the early stages of pregnancy and life-threatening conditions like preeclampsia.

"Animal placentas are often distinct from human ones, so studying them is of limited use," leaving pregnancy researchers in the dark. But now, @utsengage.bsky.social scientists have developed a critical research tool: bioprinted human placental #organoids. ๐Ÿงช

theconversation.com/3d-printed-m...

22.09.2025 13:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Designer homes for mini-placentas: A bioprinted solution Mini placentas can be grown in the lab to study pregnancy and complications like preeclampsia. Using 3D printing technology, we have bioprinted the first placental organoids and studied the impact of ...

In this @springernature.com blog, @lanamcclements.bsky.social & @clairerich.bsky.social explain how they overcame the confounding variability of animal-derived #biomaterials with Inventia's culture platform, enabling more control & reproducibility.

communities.springernature.com/posts/design...

22.09.2025 13:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽค Calling all early-career placenta researchers!
The SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award is open for submissions.
If youโ€™re presenting at #SRB2025 & meet the criteria, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!
๐Ÿ”— www.anzpra.org/membership-r...
#placenta #reproresearch

06.06.2025 05:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The role of sex differences in cardiovascular, metabolic, and immune functions in health and disease: a review for โ€œSex Differences in Health Awareness Dayโ€ - Biology of Sex Differences Sexual dimorphism is a fundamental characteristic of the anatomy and physiology of animals and humans, yet biomedical research has largely ignored these phenomena in the study of health and disease, d...

Many thanks to Biology of Sex Differences journal on the invitation to contribute to a review article for #sexdifferencesinhealthawarenessday in #cardiovasculardisease #preeclampsia #pregnancy #kidneydisease #immunity #diabetes

@springernature.com
#UTS

bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

13.05.2025 23:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats to these two superstars on their graduation today!

@clairerich.bsky.social - PhD ๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ‘

Niamh Mills - Honours (Biotechnology) and the University Medal!๐Ÿฅณ

Proud supervisor and delighted to have been able to share this day with them.

University of Technology Sydney #preeclampsia
#placenta

06.05.2025 08:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our new collaborative article on Maternal Immune Activation and Congenital Heart Disease. Another fantastic outcome of UTS-HUST KTP funding by UTS and Huazhong University of Science and Technology

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#pregnancy
#congenitalheartdisease
#placenta
#inflammation

06.04.2025 22:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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