COLORADO STATE PROFESSOR RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL AWARD.Dr. Gordon Niswender, director of Colorado State University's Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory and a University Distinguished Professor, has become the third American to receive the prestigious Hammond Award. The award is given annually by the Society for the Study of Fertility fertility: see infertility. fertility Ability of an individual or couple to reproduce through normal sexual activity. About 80% of healthy, fertile women are able to conceive within one year if they have intercourse regularly without contraception. in the United Kingdom. It recognizes a lifetime of achievement in promoting a better understanding of issues in the area of animal reproduction. As part of the award, Niswender flew to Utrecht, Netherlands, as guest lecturer to present his research before representatives from 27 countries on the subject for which he won the award, "Molecular Control of Luteal luteal /lu·te·al/ (loo´te-al) pertaining to or having the properties of the corpus luteum or its active principle. lu·te·al adj. Of, relating to, or involving the corpus luteum. Secretion secretion, in biology, substance elaborated by the living material of an animal or plant. Secretions in humans can be produced by a single cell or by a group of cells commonly called a gland. of Progesterone progesterone (prōjĕs`tərōn'), female sex hormone that induces secretory changes in the lining of the uterus essential for successful implantation of a fertilized egg. ." |
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