The Missing Piece

At the Carlos Simon Foundation in Valencia, young researchers are waiting to unravel the mysteries of the uterus. Because even though their ambitions rise through the roof, the number of tissue samples does not. I am lucky: a myoma, a benign tumour, has just arrived and I follow Carles in the lab while he processes the sample. Mari Carmen is unsure if her piece of the endometrium is big enough. I...

At the Carlos Simon Foundation in Valencia, young researchers are trying to unravel the mysteries of the uterus. And those are ubiquitous, as (often male) doctors and scientists overlooked female-specific conditions for centuries. I travel to Valencia to meet Mari Carmen, who is looking at the tiny creatures living on the endometrium to figure out how endometriosis works. And I get to know Javier,...