Cows May Offer Clues to Improving Fertility in Women

Dr. James Ireland was recently awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health and United States Department of Agriculture to study fertility treatments in women...by using cows.

Dr. James Ireland was recently awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health and United States Department of Agriculture to develop a "better understanding about fertility treatments in women by studying the effect of hormones on ovulation and reproduction in cows." Ireland will lead the study with Dr. Keith Latham. An article about the research, "Cows May Offer Clues to Improving Fertility in Women," can be read in MSU Today, March 2, 2017

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