Why the way we look at things in reproductive medicine is changing

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Perceptions in biology and medicine have landed squarely in a high-resolution landscape that seemingly has few boundaries. Progress in biomedical imaging and molecular diagnostics has taken us beyond observational constraints of the photograph or ultrasound readout in probing the inner workings of cells and tissues that make up the reproductive tract. With archival force, the imaging tools and their perceptual alignment with disciplines of molecular biology, high-speed data processing, and bioinformatics converge into a new reality of biological systems prompting a new set of questions within which our understanding of basic reproductive events must be reinterpreted. One need not look far beyond the recent set of publications on gene editing in human embryos (see below) to contemplate how our protocols and methods in human ARTs will be modified to accommodate the insights and discoveries looming on the horizon. And beware, embryologists—imagining a world of standardization and automation is not so farfetched given the advances in bioengineering and microfluidics entering other diagnostic and treatment programs. …